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Show INDIAN BUREAU HEADARRIVES - Land Recovery - for Charges Planned Recovery of land originally deeded to the Indians by tb federal government gov-ernment and line taken away is planned by John Collier, United States commissioner of Indian affairs, af-fairs, he revealed In Salt Lake City Thursday. J Stopping briefly after hla arrival at the airport before being taken to the Ouray naervation In the Uintah basin, Mr. Collier asserted less than one-half of 1 per cent of the land originally deeded to the Indiana is now in thsir hands. A plan to rshabilitat th Indians by providing each with land and a basic hsrd of cattle for stocking their land Is also planned. Mr. Collier Col-lier said. His visit to Utah la to best determine how this can be accomplished ac-complished here. While in the basin Mr. Collier also will Investigate report that tha land then la becoming badly eroded from overgraslng. purportedly purport-edly by the cattle of white men. who an encroaching on th reservation. reserva-tion. ' |