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Show Uinta council, 47. which from this time on will govern in dealing with youfas with other Indian tribes, I have taken great pains to explain to you that it is useless to think of retaining the reservation as in the past. You and I might talk here for a month and we would make no change in that. All your wisheB would effect no change in that law. This being the law my friends,the next best thing for you to do is to accept what will be of the greatest benefit to you. The question of consenting to accepting your allotments is the one you are to consider amd determine upon,as passed by the great council and signed by the President of the United States. That is tho simple,plain questienbefore you. Tim Johnson, These men here are telling you the truth about this reservation for they have been here a long time. This line was put here a long time before the white people came. This talk of Congress is now and has only lately been made. We do no& want it to go that way. Their talk in Congress is not very old. This is our land •where we were born and that is the way we want It to go. ThatsB the reason I say"Iwont let you have it". What I tell you is good. You are my friend and I want you to aay"yes". Inspector McLaughlin. My friends,I know the status of this reservation and how it was established. There was a certain tract of land here withdrawn from settlement and set apart upon which any Indians in Utah might be located. It was in 1861 - 41 years ago,that it was thus set aside, I have no fault to find with you for the view you take of it, you having been under that system a great many years. But since my arrival here I have been trying to impress upon you,and make you understand clearly^that these conditions have ended and a new law has displaced the old one. And you must conform to the new order of things and accept this act,it being now a law. The Government is the best friend of the Indians and will do nothing |