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Show >T 7) ance. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE Uintah and Ouray Indian Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah.. July 7, 1914. Cb CD) ,- '-J '1 - j ' Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. CT) co § *j In further answer to Office telegram of July 3, 1914 regarding the Sun Dance recently held by the Uhiteriver Indians of this reservation, the following information is submitted. I was unable to tell for sure until the last minute, whether they were going to have the dance or not. I had held councils with them and had assured them of the attitude of the Office regarding their dance, and had used every means known to me in an effort to dissuade them from Infraction of the orlder to discontinue the dance. A bunch of the influential ones had sent a telegram to Secretary Lane, asking that they might be allowed to continue,-and his answer, through your office, had been emphatic in denial. Upon receipt of his A? aftswer, the better class of the Indians said"That settles it" 3Ay-F "There will be no dance". They came over to the agency office and left word for me to the effect tkat they had given it up. J wos at the time up near their dance grounds and among their i i f :yfl camps, in a last effort to prevent the dance by peaceable meand __* I continued to have my policemen and farmers as .veil as myself ply back and forth among them and enlisted the aid of the trader at Whiterocks and of the missionaries and of a few |