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Show the Federal Government and the Mormon settlers. As soon as the interests of the two groups of whites were parallel, the Utes were forced from their lands onto a reservation which occupied an area in the Uintah Valley of Eastern Utah which the Mormons thought was not worthy of their attention. In Colorado the Utes were in possession of nearly one third of the state as late as 1876, when Colorado gained admission to the Union. A 'Utes Must Go!' movement, headed by leading figures in the new state, awaited a favorable moment to expel the Indians. The opportunity came in 1879 when a struggle over life style took place at White River Agency in northwestern Colorado. The army was called in to support the Indian Agent, and violence erupted. The U.S. Army detachment was defeated and a much larger struggle seemed imminent when the Ute leader, Ouray, intervened to stop the fighting. The struggle caused the Utes of the White River Agency and the Los Pinos Agency to be cast out of Colorado. The White River Utes were placed on the Uintah Reservation and the Uncompahgre Utes were forced to remove to a bleak and unproductive reservation set aside for them. As all the Indians were resident in the Uintah Basin from 1881, the years until 1890 can be described as a time of adjustment. Forts were founded, the two Indian Agencies were consolidated, and better transportation was developed. By 1890 the familiar patterns of administration of the Indians had emerged from the viii |