Show Uto Tribe Dear The seemingly frantic efforts made in the waning moments of the last legislative session to develop a compact with the Ute Indian Tribe causes those of us in the Uintah Basin to ponder Why the Why a document to settle only two of the many issues apparently existing between the Indians and the rest of Why a compact at If there are legal let the courts settle If there are why the eagerness to give away non-Indian rights and My principal concern in this Issue is hunting and Ules already have more opportunity than as a will ever have-exclusive hunting and fishing for about enrolled Tribal members on over one and one quarter million acres I Not only the non-Indian raise all the fish that are stocked from federal hatcheries on Indian lands without cost to the To add Insult to the Indians then turn and charge us to fish for those fish raised and released at our So far as I and a lot of other people are this whole thing has already gone further than it should Indian people are citizens of the United Let's start treating them like it by continuing to provide the same benefits we all enjoy and at the same time let them be controlled by the same rules and restrictions the rest of us are obliged to live Hunting and fishing is our right in not one of privilege for a There should be no compromise of that position in negotiations now being by Governor Matheson no matter what the threatened consequences Someone needs to remind government officials that discrimination is no more palatable to majorities than it is to Ben B. Bridges Utah |