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Show (107) Garland Hurt to Comm. Ind. Aff. RG 75 Microcopy 234 March 2, 1856 Reel 898 Great Salt Lake City March 2nd Sir; In several of my preceding communications through His Excellency Brigham Young, I have endeavered to impress upon your mind the importance of making conventions with some of the Indian tribes of this Territory, that they might be brought to a proper understanding of the policy of the government towards them. I was permited (sic) to recommend such a sourse from a firm conviction that the exigencies of the case imperatively demanded it. For I am satisfied that if these tribes are not soom located upon suitable reservations and some attention paid them to divert their minds from the great injury which they claim has been committed upon them, by their expulsion from the favorite spots of land and its occupation by the whites C That a horrid state of was and bloodshed cannot be averted. And in order to divert the minds of the most friendly and partially civilized bands, I have marked out some reservations (a map showing its location of which accompanied' my last report which I hope has reached you before this) and have encouraged them with the promise that they should be supplied with seed grain, farming implements, and such other assistance as may be necessary to induct items into a system of farming. But notwithstanding all my assidenty a Utah chief by the name of Tintick has declared his intention to make war, and after placing his men in a hostile attitude commenced |