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Show Uinta Council, 14, Succioff£: This }.and is oursj it is not for nothing; this is where our children were born and raised/ That is the reason we do not want this reservation threap open. We do not want ahybody cutting it off. Is there anybody here who has made the land? Who is it? Let him come here and talk. We are not going to give up any of this reservation away, nor have it cut in little pieces, ft is our3, and we are going to keep it. i*re know our reservation line, and the White Man knows it. Appah, (White River Ute> You are my friend. What have you been telling these Indians? I do not like that. When the Indians were given this land and when they pulled the chaJbn over and surveyed it, they told us that this land would be ours alvr&ys and that it would never be opened. That is the reason we do not know anything about opening our reservation. The Indians have lots of horses, and when you tell us that we must take farms, we do not like that on account of our horses. I have a father in Washington. It is on acepunt af this reservation that I have that father. That is tha reason the Indians think of their father in Washington upon whom they depend for these things. We do not listen to any White Man out here. We do not listen to the Mormons here. That is the reason I do not 3£ike what you tell us. |