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Show more completely civilized and who avow their determination to remain upon the soil where they say, their ancestors have lived and died. You are aware Sir, that the efforts which I am making to intro^ duce a system of farming among these Indians, is in advance of any instructions from Washington. I must therefore trouble you with a few of the reasons which have induced me to adopt this course. To those acquainted with the topography and resources of this country, it is easy to show, that as the white man takes possession of the few oases that here and there dot the dreary desert, the deer, the antelope; and even the varmints flee his presence and have the poor Indian to take of his abode in the Snowy Canyons of the mountains, where it is impossible f©r him to exist long in his present state of nakedness: Or he is driven by the white men, upon the desert plains where there'is neither game nor water. Such is the state of things in Utah. The green spots are being rapidly settled upon and the Indians is forced to quit his favorite hunting ground, or to gain a meager subsistance either by begging or stealing. The ostensible objects of government as I understand them, in appointing agents to conduct their intercourse with the Indians, are to cultivate feelings of unity and frfandly intercourse; and where possible to introduce among them a knowledge of the laws and habits of civilization. It is not the policy as some suppose to exterminate the Indians (though that is too frequently |
