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Show Uinta Council, 19. am thinking of now, is Washington. My heart is right. I do what Washington wants me to do. Washington told me to put my children in school to get an education, and I did it. I have my children in school. Washington says, "When your boys grow up, this land will belong to them." But wh^t you tell me scares me I want to die without having blood on me. I came from away over to this land here and I like this land. I hold it. I have no money: I am a poor man. I have minerals here in the mountains but even if I have, I am poor. That is the reason I talk to you. I have a father in Washington, but I am poor. I have no fence running around xsy farm. What you tell me here as coming from Washington, I am not going to pay any attention to. I do not want to talk about it. That is what I tell you now. We will let it go and let Washington do what they wish. Warren, (Uinta) 2fy friend, I am the only old man now, all the otheifc old men are dead: This land is what I am keeping for myself. We are keeping this water for ourselves. We are holding on to this land. Prom the top of the mountains streams are running both ways. The ether side belongs to the White Man. This country near the Duchesne we are keeping for ourselves. This wood we are keeping for ourselves. We have corrals ail over the mountains here: that is where w a brand our horses. Vfy friends came up here with me and there are not many of us left. Here in this land are our relatives and children covered over with earth. That is what makes this land so heavy. Tabby, the chief of our land is there. I have heard somebody talk ever s.nce I grew up: now I am an old mm . There are children on this reservation. I am old |