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Show extinction. 11 The discussions of the on- reservation trapping and fishing issues indirectly discuss traditional Ute use areas of the reservation. As in other correspondence, however, no specific sites are discussed. The process of creating an American- style rural community, is directly addressed in a series of reports written between 1935 and 1939. These documents were prepared by U. S. Indian Service extension workers, principals in charge of reservation schools, federal range examiners, and federal credit agents. U. S. Indian Service extension reports are most valuable for documenting the evolution of rural communities on the Uintah- Ouray Reservation. Extension agents took hundreds of photographs of individuals showing their economic achievements. Agents submitted these images with their reports. The reports document all phases of house construction on the reservation, from building the earliest one room log structures to construction of the multi- roomx frame bungalows of the 1930s. House photographs are accompanied with detailed lists of new dwellings and their surrounding vegetation- from ornamental shrubbery to vegetable gardens. In many instances, the owners are pictured. Schools, fair grounds, barns, cattle pens, and many other aspects of life are presented in visual detail. While it would appear from extension service reports that the entire Uintah Ute tribe had fully embraced American economic and cultural institutions, each report also shows 11 CCF Uintah and Ouray 87692- 1914, 115, 1914- 1924; CCF Uintah and Ouray 97191- 1920, 115, 1920- 1921; CCF Uintah and Ouray 4684- 1926, 115, 1926- 1930; CCF Uintah and Ouray 12660- 1930, 115, 1930- 1931. |