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Show 98 have killed many of my people; you are a Mormon, and if you stay here you will be killed." Jones was able to stay because the Indians badly needed his saddles. Tabby, after reconciliation with Jones, told him "that some of Brigham's Bishops' helped the agents to steal, and this made the Indians mad, causing them to raid upon the Mormons, and excuse themselves by saying that if the Mormons did not help to steal their provisions they would have enough; but as it was they had to steal Mormon cattle..." On his next trip to the Uintah Agency, Jones entered into long discussion of their situation with the leading Indians at Uintah. He comments: I held several meetings and cultivated on every opportunity the personal friendship of the Indians, especially the raiders, talking kindly to them and gaining their confidence and good-will. At length, one night, the bad Indians were induced to talk. They related many things about their raids; each in turn told something of his experience, entering into details. How they felt, and giving the causes of their ill-feelings. Each taking his turn in talking, said that hunger often caused them to go on raids to get cattle to eat, always making the statement that the agents stole what "Washington" sent them; that Mormons helped the agents to steal; that the Sanpete Mormons had stolen their country and fenced it up. The lands that their fathers l^Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians, (Salt Lake City: The Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890), p. 171. 15 Ibid., p. 175. |
