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Show Attend Brigham City Peach Days, September 10 And 11 - - Utah s Oldest Harvest Festivi as local far- Have Own School mers trade butter, cream, eggs The Indian childreo and other produce and in turn their own school, oper4 are sold by some of the stores. the Box Elder school disf No Tribal Government any other rural e No form of tribal government school in the county. Some visitors to Brigfe. exists at Washakie. Small misunderstandings usually are ta- will drive the few miles ken before the bishop. Very lit- highway to visit Washal" tle law enforcement is neces- to see the redman not a. depicted in the cowbo sary. Indian movies and , of some the summer, During members of the tribe travel as he actually lives, saround in the Western stales, ued by and, for the mo? to present-daprincipally in the canyons of adapted Utah and Nevada, working only civilization. The men when necessary for food and wearing buckskin shirts! ancestors did centuries clothing living in their native they may be dressed in' winter months tepees. During work clothes just life in for most the live part they at neighboring white small shacks and homes r the Indian Washakie. It is not uncommon hair in long bra! for a large family to live in one or two small rooms, although a across the shoulders of few of the Indians have fine men may be the traditic-diablanket. But then modern homes. During the fruit and berry it may be instead a seasons, many of the Indian shawl, borrowed from an families move to Brigham City, white civilization. What may sound like extravagant claims for the wild waterfowl hunting in Box Elder camping in a special camp In 1947, Utah canning county more often than not are the truth, as a good shot with a little luck or a little ground provided for migrant know-hofruit harvest hands. The in nine counties produce entire full come is to back with a doesnt matter, much, which) (it pretty likely often will take employ- 000,000 cans of foodstuffs bag after an autumn days shooting. Above are a group of Brigham City hunters who family got into the honkers in the fields just west of Brigham City, and brought home their ment picking fruit men, women and children. In general, 'Utah canning plants a limits of two Canadian geese apiece. they are considered good work- 80 different kinds of veg ers in this employment. and fruits. ready had homesteaded between There used to be more than a The 17,000 and 18,000 acres of land thousand in early times. and, directed by the earliest of decrease has been caused, to a Mormon settlers, had improved small extent, by more deaths the acreage and were making than births, but, for the most it produce. part, it is the result of Indians Some On Family Lands leaving Washakie and becomThe late Yeagah Timbinoo, ing established on reservations. FOR ALL who died at the ripe old age of Members Of Church 89 in October, 1936, used to deat of All members the tribe In the northeastern corner of light in telling many tales of Washakie are members of the Box Elder county, just off High- Indians of his tribe plowing Box L. D. S. church. They conduct while church programs such as are way 191, is Washakie Indian Elder county prairies village, one of Americas most dressed in full war regalia, held in other L. D. S. wards. unique settlements of the des- trudging behind their oxen and Some of the Indians have fulcendants of the noble redman. ponies, even as far back as filled missions for their church It is not an Indian reservation, 1855 and 1856. to foreign lands. as is commonly believed. Some A greater part of the farming Principal livelihood of the Inof the Indians are successful and grazing land at Washakie dians is from farm labor for 1 farmers on lands they them- now belongs to the L. D. S. nearby white farmers. However, selves own, others live on and church and is cultivated by the some of the Indians themselves till soil owned by the L. D. S. Indians, although many own are successful farmers. They Make your vacation more enchurch. homesteads handed also make up a material amount original joyable by taking pictures At the time other American down through the families for of buckskin articles such as of the many things you see tribes were put on reservations, generations. gloves, moccasins and jackets. and want to remember See the Shoshone Indians at Washa few Inmore than 100 Only These are to Brigham us for all your photographic akie were far ahead. They al dians now live at Washakie. City stores brought and traded for mer ' Limits " The Rule, Not The Exception, For Box Elder Hunters chandise-m- uch sto-- -- farmer-likel- men-thei- t Washakie Indians Retain Some Of VISIT COMPTONS Tribal Customs m reos JwAtJ err?, V needs. KODAK & KODAK SITPL'. 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