| OCR Text |
Show J. H, Holemen to Comm. Ind. Aff. RG 75 Microcopy 234 August 30, 1852 Reel 897 Great Salt Lake City August 30, 1852 Hon. L. Lea Sir- I addressed you two communications from Carson Valley dated June 28, and July 19, in which I informed you of my operations up to that time. I subsequently visited a village of the Pi-Utah Tribe of Indians, who reside in and about that region of country, numbering about 350, who I found friendly disposed, but somewhat excited on account of the repeated abuses which they had received from the whites. I held a talk with them, of several hours, four of their chiefs and many of their principal men were present-in all of which, they manifested the greatest friendship, and seemed very much pleased with the idea of being on friendly terms with the whites. They said they "did not wish to be mad with the whites, or to war with them, but that the whites had got mad with them, and were always at war with them-that they could not hunt or catch fish for their Squaws and children for fear of the whites, who were constantly shooting them-that the whites would profess friendship, call them to their camp, and shoot them--that the whites would steal their horses and sometimes take them by force," with many other charges of an aggravated character. All this, they said, "they had borne for a long time; at length, some of their young men, determined to retaliate, and that they had killed as many whites, as the whites had killed Indians, and taken as many horses from the whites as they had taken from them- they were now satisfied, and if the whites would let them alone, they would distrub the whites no further." They said, they had "never wished |
