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Show and many, of them are disposed to rely upon rations rather than make personal effort for self-support. Such Indians •t . :•••', -•,';• ,'•'' . •' -•...._-'..-.•.-• ."- ' , . • ;.*... -.-> *.i 0.,- •--'.:-':• ,-.Ov . -'--,, ,• - do'notytake kindly, to industrial suggestions and. are :/777 3'w t/MyOFF- '(• 7 .• 7 w;'7:' "'-7'- • hreeders of. discontent ...'7 7.3: 7 .' yO;«: Ai'.-A' "'00--'" rlO ,.:7 r "__'>£ " .•.-/-.--r:A',..•. ••:• • • . - , •• sfj.. ,- .;•;,. 37- .:A7y y Some ..months- ago a delegation from Uintah and Ouray.: visited,''Washington.: and.-.while-' here urged upon me theii , * •• • v-' ,,'., ' right; to full support by the Government, and one of them affirmed his indisposition to either live upon his allotment or indulge in labor. He declared the white men thereabouts to be offensive and urgently requested that his peopla be transferred to a net/ reservation to the east and beyond the river, where he admitted there was no farming opportunity, that they night thereby becomu more isolated, depending largely upon gratuities. Ke showed lack of interest in the i education of their children and -i-as otherwise antagonistic to Department policies. His '.-as the most pronounced expression of this, character that liaa come to me from an Indian", during my imcumbency, of. this Commissionership .. 3.'. •-,'-Third:... The construction of an Expensive irrigation ' ' ' " ."', >' '• '•'••', **:'. ' •.'" • ' ' ' W y - ' • 7, .. ,.- •.>,'•';•, project.on this Reservation with a fixed limitation within • '• • -t which water mu3t be utilized on Indian allotments or. their-rights thereto forfeited presents a raost difficult situation in this, that thoro'.has been but little accomplished and we |