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Show Education - 201 school has prejudiced the minds of the Utes against schools. S. S. # 320ct. p. 132- 134 June 19, 1895 Day, Daniel F., Indian Agent, So. Ute Agency Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Day informs the commissioner that Ignacio is preventing children from attending the Ft. Lewis school and is even kidnapping the children from that school and returning them to the reservation. Day requests authority to strip Ignacio and his police of their uniforms. Ignacio has not influence with the Utes who occupy the east end, but his tribe is feared. Day writes of some superstitions the Utes have about deaths being caused by not being removed to the Utah reservation and by the building of the school house. NA, RG 75, BIA/ 17733 Aug. 19, 1895 Browning, D. M., Commissioner Letter to David F. Day- So. Ute Agency Permission is granted for the expenditure of $ 9 00 for a year's care, support and education of three Ute children afflicted with blindness or deafness at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. Aug. 27, 1895 Browning, D. M., Commissioner of Indian Affairs Letter to David F. Day, Indian Agent, So. Ute Agency The commissioner orders Day to encourage the So. Utes to send their children to the Ft. Lewis School. He reminds him that he can not " use any coercive measures, such as withholding annuities or rations to force attendance at the school." FRCD/ RG 7 5 Sept. 15, 1895 |