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Show 113 is that when government annuities were not forthcoming in I876, the Indian residents took this in good part and reacted thus when told by Critchlow of the situation: All right; Washington heap poor now; we will hunt more buckskins now and heap farm next year, and may be Washington give us more blanksts.l6 . In the matter of schools, the determined agent did far less well. In 1874, Mrs. Critchlow and their children moved'to the Uintah Agency, and Mrs. Critchlow opened a school. The school was largely a failure, and Critchlow recommended that a teacher and a matron be sent, and a boarding school constructed. The Bureau's response was standard-they hesitated. Finally in 1880, a teacher was sent to the Uintah Agency to take over where Mrs. Critchlow had failed. The sum of $500 was appropriated and a young lady arrived. The day school had poor luck again; the snow was so deep that the students could not get to the school. After eight months of discouragement and extremely poor attendance, the teacher resigned her position and left. Critchlow was ill-disposed to live with failure on the school issue. After ten years of pleading to the federal officials, he asked the assistance of the Presbyterian Church, the group which had sponsored his nomination as an Indian Agen«t. The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions worked out an agreement with an Indian service to Critchlow to Commissioner Smith, September 1, 1876, in RCIA, 1876, p. 129. |
