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Show in the documentation submitted with this report. 9 The largest number of federal documents giving any kind of locational information at all are correspondence related to restricting Ute hunting and fishing, on and off the reservation. When non- Indian destruction of on- reservation resources lead to near destitution of the Utes during the 1890s and early decades of the twentieth century, the Indians were compelled to return to their traditional hunting and fishing territories in Colorado. Documents name a number of Colorado sites important to the traditional economy of the tribe. 10 On- reservation locational information is also referenced in documents regarding trapping and fishing. As the United States created canals to irrigate reservation lands, non- Indians and mixed- blood trappers killed so many beavers that the entire system was threatened. Beavers had historically created dams that captured spring mountain run- off and made natural reservoirs that, fed the canals. The changing water levels in reservation streams threatened both the irrigation system and the fish stocks. Full-blood Utes and federal agents tried to save the beavers from 9 Densmore Photographs, Uintah Reservation, 1914. National Anthropological Archives, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 10 CCF Uintah and Ouray 87522- 1913, 056, 1913; CCF Uintah and Ouray 7069- 1913, 013, 1913; CCF Uintah and Ouray 110006- 1914, 115, 1914- 1915; CCF Uintah and Ouray 87522- 1913, 056, 1913; CCF Uintah and Ouray 111777- 1916, 121, 1916; CCF Uintah and Ouray 69498- 1925, 115, 1925. |