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Show Uinta council, 20. That is the reason I have this reservation here. I am not going to give it up to the White Man, It is not buckskin or deer's hide, and I do not want to sell it. I do not want any of this land to be given up. I have it in my grip and I do not want to sell it. Here is the school filled with children. They will grow up soon, and the land will belong to them. They will have homes ever the reservation. I don't want to be afraid of anything on this reservation. Red Gap. (White River Ute) This Agency is here anei It was not put here for nothing. There are a lot of agencies but there is only one Washington. This reseavation is heavy. The Indians have gram here and their bones are under the ground, covered over with earth. That is the reason it is so heavy. Those people in Washington, they shake zs_y hand, but they do not want me to throw my hands away. IZy heart i3 straight. The Indians have understood what they have heard, and they hold this reservation, and they do not want any of it cut oft. We want this reservation lino to be just as it is. I hold it for my children, and I don't want to part wdth it. I .Save heard talk abput selling before. Now that you have come here I am going to talk, as my father, Chief Tabby is dead. We do not like your talk about throwing it open. How is it that we lose our reservation line? Wh«re is it gone? I want everything on thi3 reservation to be good and I don't want everyone coming in here. lhe reason I am talking so i3 because I am on the land here, which has been surveyed out for us. There is the Price road; it is the gate of this reservation. I do not want any kind of people to come in on this reservation. What you said about allot ing this land, I |