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Title Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1891(Pt I)
Subject Indian reservations; Federal government; Indians of North America; Indians of North America--Education; Courts; Allotment of land; Land use; Railroads; Timber; White people--Relations with Indians; Health; Annuities; Horses; Crime; Missionaries; Natural resources; Tribal government; War; Irrigation; Water rights; Education; Religion; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords Annual Report; Indian Agency; Reservations; Tribal Funds; Inter-tribal Relations; Military; Allotment; Land Rights; Indian; White Relations; Native Americans
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Tribe Ute
Language eng
Description Excerpts concerning Utah from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs discusses soil cultivation and farming enterprises, proposals for creating a shift in Indian policy toward individualism and humanitarianism, the establishment of U.S. courts in Indian Territory, the implications and consequences of granting Indians U.S. citizenship, methods of promoting health and improving sanitary conditions on reservations, the performance of existing schools and the development of new ones, and the construction of railroads on Indian land. Agent Robert Waugh provides demographic data about the Uintah reservation and discusses annuity payments, farming, the sale and consumption of alcohol, cattle raising, and health conditions. Waugh also describes the condition of the Ouray agency's buildings, school performance, farming and ranching practices, and the lack of missionaries on the reservation
Type Text
Coverage Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.)
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ARK ark:/87278/s6cp00mw
Creator Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Morgan, T. J.; Waugh, Robert
Date 1891
Spatial Coverage Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.)
Setname uaida_main
ID 371424
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cp00mw

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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cp00mw/371306