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Show Uinta Council, 10. are scattered over this country. Whan the whites discovered this country the:/ first began Battling on the Atlantic coast and gradually moved westward, pressing farther and farther west. Then paopla began coming eastward from the Pacific coast until the advance guards of the ?rhite settlements met and thare is now no frontier. When there was a great deal of vacant land, there were large tracts set apart for the Indians. Tha reservations were made large in days gone by when you could make a living by hunting and large reservations were then necessary and possible, but with the tide of immigrat.ion coming into the' country, game has become scarce and you can no longer live by hunting: and there** fore you must take to agriculture to make a living for yourselves and families. As I told you yesterday, the decision of the Supreme Court is the highest authority in this land, and the supreme Sourt has decided that tha sovereign right of ownership of : land is in the Government and the Indian is entitled to only A. what land he can make use of. ITow vay friends, there is no other government on this globe that has been so generous with a conquered people a3 our Government has been. It gave tha people fouhd inhabiting this country large tracts of land to live on till thay reached a fair degree of civilization. Now my friends, remember that the President, the Se:aretary, and the Comm* si oner are only executive officers^ Thay are to execute the laws made by Congress. I wish to explain to you what Congress is. Congress i«| the representation of the people of the United States. The paopla elect the members of Congress, and thay make the laws. Congress is tha voice of the peopla speaking through their representatives. Congressman are elected every two ye^ra. "Every di'tisan Of the |