Show Ute Tribe to offer agreement compromise to Utah Legislature A proposal to end disagreements between Indians and non-Indians in the Uintah Basin will be presented to the 1979 a lawyer for the It is a compromise compact dealing with tax hunting and fishing water rights and questions of who has legal jurisdiction in the Such Issues have been a source of irritation between Ute Indians and non-Indians for several and not everyone agrees with the proposed said Stephen G. a lawyer for the Ute if the compact is enacted by the it would be binding on all subject to approval by the Ute the Secretary of the Interior and the of necessary laws by the state and he If the compact makes it through the it will effectively cancel a lawsuit in federal court involving Ute Indians and the U. S. District Judge Bruce S. Jenkins has delayed the case until March 30 to await the Much of the trouble between the Utes and non-Indians stems from 1975 when the tribe adopted a law-and-order code claiming legal jurisdiction over all persons and ownership of all wildlife within the 1882 boundaries of the Ute Those 1882 boundaries encompass nearly million Including almost all of Duchesne half of Wasatch two-thirds of Uintah County and a portion of Grand In the proposed this large region is described as the Since the actual reservation has shrunk to its present boundaries of million In the compact these are described as Among highlights of the proposed compact are the arrested anywhere in the settlement area would be taken to nearest non-Indian lail and tried and punished by non-Indian Ute tribal police could arrest Indians anywhere in the settlement Indians would be delivered to tribal jails and tried and punished by tribal or federal and judicial proceedings of the tribal courts would be fully recognized by the The tribe would not assess or collect any tax on non-trust lands or property in the settlement It would not exercise any zoning or other regulatory authority on The tribe would have jurisdiction to license and regulate activities on trust lands by any Indian or The tribe would share In state-imposed such as sales and use cigarette alcohol beverage transient room tax and motor fuel All such taxes would apply to both Indians and non-Indians in the settlement including the trust Utes Indians would be exempt from state Income taxes and property taxes within the trust Individual Utes would have the right to boat and trap anywhere in the settlement subject only to tribal state would retain its existing authority over and trapping by all persons other than Ute Indians on all non-trust lands within the settlement |