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Show Uinta Council, 15. Sowsonocutt, (?/hite River Ute) They did not put us here on this reservation for nothing. Thay put us here a long time ago. That is how we came on this reservation. That's the reason we like this land here and we are holding it tight. All this land belongs to us and this reservation here belongs to the little children growing up We do not like what you tell us wheh you talk abjrarfc giving us little pieces of land, jt is not good, T^ae Indians have lots of cattle and I horses. Whan we take the Government's little pieces of land, how are we to run our horses inside on little pieces of land? ^hen I wa3 in Washington, I saw ay father, and he told ma ha would never put us out of this reservation. The Commissioner told me:- "When anybody comes to ask for your reservation, do not listen to him.M "Don't let anyone who talks like that come into your house." There is just one reservation left,- the reservation heres that is *ur land. That's all, TercasS, (White River Ute) I did not grow up here for nothing. This land he*-e belongs to me. I do not want to sell any of it off. Capt. Parank# (Uinta) I do not want you to steal my money, I heard all you had to say. I Heard you, and I think I understand you all rigkt, but I do not believe what you tell me. I do not like it when you talk to me. This land I am talking on, I have grown up upon. Long time ago, I did not talk any, but now I talk. I have a fathdr> Washington, I call him. He ha3 me for his boy on account of this land. I am an ifidian, I think of what they told us logg time |