Letter from Supervisor Jewell D. Martin to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells dated August 6, 1914;
Subject
Indians of North America; Indian Reservations; Federal Government; Correspondence; Land Use; Water Rights; Grazing; Hunting; Treaties; Whites--Relations with Indians;
Place names
Fort Duchesne (Utah); Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.);
Keyword
Indians of North America; Indian Agency/ Reservations; Federal Government; Correspondence; Land; Land Use; Land Rights; Water Rights; Grazing; Hunting; Treaties; Indian/White Relations; Ute Indians
Tribe
Ute;
Band
Uncompahgre;
Creator
Martin, Jewell D.;
Description
Jewell D. Martin asks if Walter Daniels, a part-Uncompahgre Indian, needs to acquire a license before fishing on an Indian grazing reserve;
Publisher
Digitized by: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah;
Date.original
1914-08-06;
Type
Text;
Format
application/pdf;
File name
2of2-Fd11-SS011
Language
eng;
Coverage
Fort Duchesne (Utah); Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.);
Rights
Digital image copyright 2011, University of Utah. All rights reserved;
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D E P A R T M E N T OF THE INTERIOR ZD
Requests fO--
information. UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE
Uintah and Ouray Indian Agency,
Fort Duchesne, Utah.
August S, 1914.
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3 Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
YoWashington,' D.C.
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Walter, Daniels, a half-blood of this reservation,
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j^J I was.fishing in one of the streams on the Indian Grazing re-
37 I serve recently and had not bought a license to hunt or fish
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v-i j before a local Justice of the Peace and a warrant was issued
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' j ./alter appealed to me for an opinion as "35) whether
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fish on the Federal Reserve and in the light of existing
treaties I advised him that I doubt whether he can be forced
to procure a license. I agreed to write the Office foe ar.
official opinion on the subject. The Justice has agreed
to withold further action in the matter until such time as
the opinion of the Office is obtained, o 7 -yy•
It seems that In one of tho orld treaties, the
Uncompahgre Indians were guaranteed the right to hunt on
the land3 of their reservation, 30 long as the game lasted
and they were at peace with the-, white people. This treaty
seems to have been reaffirmed and extended so as to include
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