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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd ammunition, possessinglarge numbers of horses, and wrarriors who were brave and skilful fighters.They were fully conscious of their strength, and when the white sett letsand miners began to encroach on their lands, which were rich in mineralsand included the best farming and grazing lands in the State, the Indiansassumed a hostile attitude and had no disposition to yield up their nativeland. Their ways were not the white mans ways; they were still in thehunter stage of development, and much preferred to gain their subsistencefrom the products of the chase, which they could exchange at the varioustrading-posts off the reservations for the things they needed—guns, am-munition, and, we regret to say, whiskey. During the year 1879 and 1880 there was a great rush of white set-tlers to the State of Colorado, where rich mineral deposits had been dis-covered on the reservation lands of the Indians. To these fortune-hunt;- * From a report made by General Sheridan in ls7s. S S3 d o K J, $,
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THE UTE OUTBREAK OF 1879. 477 from the East the sacred promises of an Indian treaty did not matter,and the Indians soon saw the new-comers establishing themselves on theirlands, contrary to the treaty provisions which had reserved these lands tothem forever. The Indians, however, would not cultivate the soil nordevelop the mines, and, therefore, they must be removed from the path ofprogress. In 1863 a treaty had been made with the Utes by the provisions ofwhich a part of their native lands in western Colorado was secured to themas a reservation. Five years later, in 1868, another treaty was drawn up,which set aside a larger reservation on which all the Eastern Utes were tolive—this territory to be theirs forever, with a further stipulation accord-ing them the privilege of hunting outside the reservation limits. Butdespite these treaties—considered mere scraps of paper by the whiteinvaders—the reservation lands were occupied by the whites in 1879,and the trouble that was inevitab

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