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Show 1 Ralph McQueary CHEVRON GAS STATION Hour Service Atlas Tires - Batteries 24 Standard Oil Products U. S. Highway 66 Phone 123 Grants, New Mexico BUTANE & PROPANE GAS STORAGE TANKS GAS APPLIANCES BUTANE NAVAJO SOUTHERN UTE leaders are Sara Burch, left, chairman of the tribal council, and John E. Baker, standing, director of the tribes rehabilitation program. At right Is Robert L. Bennett, an Oneida Indian, who was named superintendent of the Consolidated Ute Agency last June. COMPANY Prompt - Courteous Service CHEVRON CLARK'S With Trout Lakes STATION WASHING O LUBRICATION Pickup and Delivery on Highway 6G Grand Mesa Rich East Grants, New Mexico Just a few DELTA, Colo. miles from Delta is the world's mountain. Grand largest Bat-toMesa, rising about 6,000 feet from the Colorado Plateau The mesa is well known by fishermen and wild life enthusiasts. R has approximately 200 lakes which are fished for trout during the season, and bear, deer and elk abound atop the mountain. Access roads principally used, to climb to the top of Grand Mesa are from Delta on one side, p low-land- PEARL BOX, whose husband Fritz is a former boutnern ute tribal councilman, won ribbons for garments entered in sewing exhibits at the La Plata county fair last falL Ph. 125W Mexico Grants, New P. 0. Box 345 Southern Utes Turn To Farming, New Living Ways As long ago as the late 1890s the Ute Indian was told his way of living must yield to that of the white man and because they heeded that advice, most members of the Southern Ute tribe are farm- ers. Chief Buckskin Charley, who assumed leadership of the Mouache and Capote tribes when they combined, saw almost as soon as the reservtation was established in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico that the old Indian way of life was doomed. He tried to have his people moved to another reservation more suitable to without the and stockraising handicap posed by their reservations odd, rectangular shape. When the attempt to move failed. Buckskin Charley urged his people to learn to farm as the white man did, and to send their children to school. They heeded his advice, and today most of the Southern Utes are farmers. The Southern Utes are not "Tourist Indians." They live in houses, not in teepees. They do not make blankets or rugs, as do the Nava-joor make jewelry or beadwork for sale, as do some other tribes. They dress much as their white neighbors do. The auto and tractor have replaced the horse to a great extent on the reservation, as elsewhere. Most members of the tribe speak English. Nevertheless the Southern Utes have been a people apart. They people and the Bureau of Indian Affairs failed. But these first plans reflected the ideas of rather than the thinking of the Southern Utes themselves. So the Indians set to work to write their own plan. A young member of the tribe John E. Baker, a veteran of World War II, was called back from engineering school to head the task. Baker termed the resulting report a blueprint for action. The plan called for building a better family life, for better education of younger Indians, for remedying defects in the tribal land code, for improving the status of Indian farmers. It called for eventually transferring all the functions of the Indian Service to the same agencies which serve the neighboring white community. It called for extensive participation of the themselves in ail phases of the program. In-ia- ns Other job opportunities have been few in the Ignacio community. And years of wardship inevitably fostered a habit of dependency upon the Indian Service. Many of the Indians were -stricken until income from oil and gas leases started filling the tribal coffers about four years ago they had received no gratuities in cash or provisions for about 20 self-relian- REAL ESTATE GRANTS AREA C, M. ROUSE Room 1, Ph. 91 Fidel or 92 & Rouse Bldg. P. O. Box 597 JOBBER tt; Box 307 Mobilgas Grants Phone 59 New Mexico NELLIS MOTOR CO DODGE - PLYMOUTH Sales & Service poverty- years. Tribal leaders were aware that their people, through years of poverty and dependency, had lost and digmuch of the nity of their ancestors. They knew also that many Indians had fallen CLAIMS - MINES ALL KINDS ROSS E. GREEN s, have become farmers, but because of tribal land problems and other factors few have been able to make a living by farming alone. URANIUM LEASES COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR and 24 TUNE-U- P HOUR SERVICE PHONE 236 GRANTS, NEW MEXICO into the habit of idleness. The tribal leaders set out to overcome these conditions at a cult time when their most diffipeople sud- denly had become wealthy, with no experience in handling wealth. The leaders determined that the land claims money the Southern Ute share amounted to about after fees were paid must be used to fit their people for full citizenship. The Southern Utes, they said, must be trained in management of both their personal and tribal affairs, no that their resources would be increased rather than depleted and eo that in time the supervision of the Indian Service could be ended. And, toe, the 9elf respect and ef the Indian must be restored. Two attempts at drafting a rehabilitation program for nae of the land claims money which would meet the approval af both the -- self-relian- ONE STOP GROCERY SERVICE GLADINS SUPER MARKET Grants, New Mexico Phone 24-2- 7 |
