Show Ute Indian social-economic social survey made 20 years ago Th The following artl article Je telling of plans to develop the Ute Indian Tribe appeared in the March 7 1957 issue of the Vernal Ex Ex- Ex- Ex press A survey preliminary to the expected ex per capita payment to members of the Ute Indian Tribe is being made on the Uintah Uintah-Ouray Uintah Ouray Indian Reservation This will be the first step in the recently- recently approved ten year Ute Tribal Development Program reported Indian Agency officials officials officials of of- Wednesday The Ute Development Program was planned as a result of the so called partition act under Public Law which divided the Ute Indian Tribe into the Affiliated Ute Citizens and the Full Blood Ute groups and which is itself the product of the term long-term program entered entered entered en en- into by the Ute Indian Tribe in 1951 Tim TILE PRESENT study is being made to ascertain current assets indebtedness and the social and economic needs of some full-blood full Ute families and unmarried adults It is expected that upon completion of this survey and the setting up of administrative units to supervise the vast expenditure program of 6 million that individual individual individual in in- family programs willbe will willbe willbe be started These programs are intended to assist the Full Full- Full Blood Ute people to become self self- supporting and dependent citizens of their various com com- It has been explained to the Ute people that before development of a program which will provide enterprise assuring them of a livelihood they should clear their many existing obligations to the Ute Tribe and Uintah Basin merchants mer mer- chants Due to the large number of debts accumulated by certain individuals merchants are warned that extension of further further further fur fur- ther credit is a risk they should be reluctant to take LOCAL MERCHANTS can be beof beof beof of great help in individual rehabilitation of the Ute Indians by refraining from extending credit raising prices offering cheap or shoddy merchandise and advising the Indians to invest unwisely officials of the Public Relations Staff of the Ute Indian Tribe pointed out The Family Plan which is isnow isnow isnow now getting underway on the Uintah-Ouray Uintah Reservation is an essential part of the full-blood full Ute Year Ten Development Program Its purpose is to assist the Ute people in becoming independent and self- self sustaining Vast expenditures of money by the Utes or in their behalf could not assure the Ute people of attaining individual econ- econ domic independence Rather the key to their problem is believed to lie in their adaptation adaptation adaptation adap adap- tation to certain economic practices involving changes in basic attitudes and habits The present plan is a compromise compromise compromise com com- promise between the extremes of rigid control a policy carried out in 1933 and complete absence absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence of control a program begun in both 1951 of which proved unsuccessful The ultimate result was to encourage greater dependence upon tribal income from oil royalties land claims settlements settlements settlements set set- and government grants |