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Show Uinta Council, 48. which is not for their benefit in the end. Remember your lands are not being taken away from you by this Act. You are receiving allotaOnts and it is nnly the surplus lands that will be opened to settlement. I sua telling you the truth, rny friends, and you must bring yourselves to look upon it in the proper light. APpah. I do not understand what that new law is I do not understand about our reservation line made by that old treaty, how this new law can throw that off. I do not understand that. I do not know hew it is that the President put his name on that Act of Congress. You are pulling me round from this line here I do not Seel very happy when you do that. I do not understand why Washington's name was put on that. When you cut our land up and put se on a piece of land I don't understand it. You say it is thrown ©pen and it seems I can't understand it. You have not shown it plainly ^enough for me. I can't understand why you are pulling me round over the country, but you are pulling me round like a horse. You are pulling down the Agency and ycu are pulling the school down too. This is why I don't understand it You have it hid in your pocket, and I don't understand it., and it seems as though I had no sense. I am not going to think the way of this new law. Why don't you throw that law away? You are Jiust like a storm coming down from the mountains when the flood is coming down the stream and we can't step it. I have this reservation line fixed and you can't throw it aside. Happy Jack. We have all met here now and are talking. We are your friends and we don't want any trouble. Let us be friends. You have your friends, and we Indians are your friends. We are shaking hands together and we don't want any quarrels. I am going |
