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Show I, '" *'' '"v "U'MllOoil • witll their \::::A:A7 u^^/y \ A A *'"" ,h'-'ir °w«» fici-ht to ^ ' • ^"^.f^-^thau-lnl .... .1° •"- UneoiapnhjfrH tTtea; -n.ovjd,1(1 L"«l crop p.r0Flncins ^ ^ ^h e gnx&xx#xt RVICE, noiAndtor.,toi; S ^ X ^ W Asency, ''••,1'^ucl,i„(ifan,o,-nllyone.els(, 'xpcks, Uintah Co., Utah, 'ZyyyyyTrA s^*"1- 13y7' ,rnnl„;„. ....... ..,7. . """ '''V "bonhl l^olauusnch edict for tha reason « A Honorable commissi. "'? ,""l"rst01"1 f«" «-0ii tb.tt «... _,,'., |'^l.„otA,J,,,.rcS3.s;U(lth mQ » o 1 .. . I have the honor to state, in connection with my letter of this date to you, referring to a Council held with the White Rivers on the 28th ultimo, that there is a determined antagonism upon the part of the White River Jtes to the allotment of lands in severalty: to having any boundaries to individual claims, to the improvement of tho land for any extended agricultural improvements, to sending their children to school and, in a word, to the advancement of civilisation. They want, also, to prevent •'.hen- close neighbours, the Uintahs, from advancing in my way, The mouth-pieces of the tribe are Sowawick,(the chief) Uarcisco, Catoomp, Shotov/inchaiihicut, Satsanikcnt and Ouahtumrinkeut, headmen.. These named Indians express themselves on all occasions, antagonistic to any statement made by me, which tends toward allotment, making the staterxnt boldly tint y/h..t [ sy Is sot true. This at X. •;v.v.'. is hrongnt about prlncixvally by Xaroisco, who annually makes ;: . Llgrima.ge t , the Sioux, particularly Red CloudX. people, and returns with pretended statements of that chief, and after haranguing his people (the White Rivers) he proceeds to the Uncompahgres and the White Rivers among th.m and repeats his falsehoods. He finds many among them to believe him and |
