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Show 7 ? 7 UI1TTA1I ,3. OURAY AGE1IOY Ft. Duchesne, Utah. Juno 24, 1913. REPORT OF COUliCIL HELD AT SU1! DAL'CE CROUUDSy * . y • Juno s23, 1913. V Tho Indians wore gathered togethor at tho jjfci.no of thoir Annual Sun Dance. Provious c.rrangonont had boon mado with then that the natter of tho enrollment' of Lira. Hate Richardson would bo taken up with then at this annual dance. ' They had agreed to send word to the agency offioo when they woro aonorfblcd, and tho Supervisor in Chargo had agreed to take tho matter up with thon in council. A large majority of the nalo members of tho various tribes were thero,. and the council was called to order at 3;C0 o'clock within the enclosure of tho Sun Dance grounds. A Mr. Martin:. J- » J . » | , 1 _4 ^rou told me in the offioe tho other day that if I would cone to tho Sun Dahco grounds I would be ablo to coo all the headmen and have a talk with them rogarding tho enrollment of J'rs. Kabe,Richardson as a member of this tribe. V.'c will now talk it over and I wich to-listen to what-any of you have to say." 3 :...' * '$C 3aviri Connorfield: "I'Tils wonan wan hero once before for thin scire nattor and v/c had decided not to enroll hor, but now Wanrodcs and I think she should be onrollod, but wo don't think that her girl should bo enrolled. Her daughter io a half-brood and conotiroon hnlf-broed girls havo been enrolled and v.o thought they would marry full-blood Indians, but inntoad of that they marry white men and. then wo liave quarter-bloods, and wo object to thin. Wanrodcs and I aro willing to enroll this old lady, Mrs. Kato Richardson, but not hor daughter-. This woman has a daughter and wo do not want tho daughter on tho roll. V.'c wont to get all the childron of tho half-broods by Mormon white non off the roll, and not havo thon'on tho roll. - I want all tho children of half-breodo in all othor canes cut off tho roll." • <)• (This rcfero to Janoo B. Rood, William Taylor, '""Tic Reed, Jlcnry Harris, and Maggie Van and their funilipc,ail of whom have largo families of nixed blood childron-who arc enrolled.) . , •, .-,.3 Y-.Mr. Martin; _ %''•' •'•if ,. In Washington wc have certain rules about thefohroll- Yncnt of Indians and1 those rules apply to tho two hundred preservations and I think that thooo rules aro that whon & 'parent in onrolled tho children born into that family can :;<tv xlco bo enrolled; but this girl is a grown jmtiax.. |
