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Show ?y hear,has not succeededsfn getting/one child (of full blood) (five half breeds are in attendance). The cause I find to be partly in a general antipathy to Schools, Common to all Indians:but mainly to the determined opposi tion to obeying orders,and send their Children to School,on the part of a large ana violent Bana of Indians,heaaea by Red-Moon,Eny Colorowrand others of lesser notoriety'living east of the Green river,and south of the V/hite; and so determined and outspoken is their opposition as tG completely intimidate,Chief Charley Chavanah,ana all others from obeying my orders, to send their Children to School, goine to the extent of threatening their lives if they did, or of burning the School-houses over their fteads. Their reasons are various, sometimes it is that they wanted the school-housesiiocated at the Agency instead of at the present site,(some twelve miles up the Duchesne river). At other times they will say that the Agencies should not have been consolidated, that they were entitled by treaty to an Agent of their own, that then they would have sent their Children to school, I cannot but regard theirhxcuses as the merest "sham"to justify their determination nop to submit to the civilizing influence of ttie school: • They have always lived a wila life, have never hdd a school in their Tribe nor would they suffer their children to be sent elswhere to school. |