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Show Uinta Council, 12. stand) my friends, that I am known among the Indians for telling the truth. I will answer all your questions truthfully, I will not misrepresent anything nor use misleading wordst And I say to you as your friend, that the law must be complied with and will be carried out. My friend, Tim Johnson, has a wrong idea regarding, this matter and I want to correct it before it is accepted and believed by^Jndians. The policy of the Government in regard to Indian reservations has changed during the past year. There will be no more treaties made with Indians, The surplus lands will be opened to settlement but the Indians will be protected in their homes. This question, my friends, may be somewhat cloudy and I expect you to a]»k questions and I hope you will ask them in.a friendly way. All of your reservation, outside of your allotments, and the tract set apart for pasture, will be opened for settlement upon which Whites will come, and the proceeds will be placed in the United States Treasury to your credit and expended for your benefit in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. Capt. Joe: I want to talk just a little bit to you. The Indite* reservation was not put down for nothing. It is held down by something heavy. A soldier man, like our Agent here, put thi3 reservation here. K« was a general of the army who talked with us and put this reservation aside for us and said it was put aside for the Indians? and the Indians were put upon it. He told Biigam Young and his *oraon» that* he did not want them to com* hero,- that thia r4i6t+ vation was for the Indians. ge said that to SoveyM krid to another chief, old Tabby, and anoihet one j old Aftter6* ThOy are all dead and gone ntfw, I am tha only one hare thai, heard that |