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Show Reservation. The particulars of grazing, logging, and agriculture on the reservation are laid out in tables, as well as in visual form. Irrigation canals are charted. This report, more than any other in the series of documents, outlines the early twentieth century structure of the Uintah Ute rural communities. It is interesting that this report also accords the Sun Dance and Bear Dance a prominent role in community life, and the author comments on the continuing custom of traditional Ute marriages. Other Collections Surveyed Four additional sets of federal documents were examined during this survey. However, they provided no pertinent information regarding traditional cultural properties. These document sets are: a) Record Group 75, Letters received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1881- 1907; b) Records of the Indian Claims Commission; c) Cartographic Records of the United States, National Archives; and, d) holdings of the Library of Congress. To facilitate upcoming research on political or economic matters related to the Uintah- Ouray reservation, the researcher took notes regarding the contents of the most valuable information in these sources. ( Appendix A) The individual letters received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the Uintah- Ouray Reservation between 1881 and 1907, were not filed in a coherent, topical, collection that can be quickly summarized. The correspondence is too voluminous to abstract each letter individually. In general, the letters dealt with the same topics of land and resource 12 |
