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Show Utah Paiutes Assume Self-Management Under Proclamation Four small bands of Faiute Indians In Utah, comprising 232 members, will take over full responsibility re-sponsibility for management of their own affairs under a proclamation procla-mation signed Feb. 21. 1957 by Acting Secretary of the Interior Fred G. Aandahl in fulfillment of a 1954 Congressional enactment. The bands affected are Shiv-wits Shiv-wits with 130 enrolled members and 27,520 acres of tribal prop-ty, prop-ty, Kanosh with 42 members and about 6,000 acres of tribal land, Koosharem with 34 members and 440 acres, and Indian Teaks with 26 members and approximately 9.000 acres. In addition to the trlhat hnlHlnrr individual mm. bers of the Kanosh band own a total of 1,840 acres and members mem-bers of the Koosharem group 240 acres which have been up to now In Federal trusteeship. In accordance with the 1954 enactment, Public Law 762 of the 83rd Cogress, subsurface or mln. eral rights to all of the lands sill owned by the Indians are being transferred to a private trustee to be held for at least 10 years. The Walker Bank and Trust Company of Salt Lake City has been selected for this purpose. pur-pose. - In the case of the surface rights, the decision or disposition was left up to the Indian owners. own-ers. The great bulk of the lands Involved have not been used by the Indians In recent years and most are scheduled for sale. Those not already sold are be-ing be-ing transferred to the Walker Bank and Trust under a liquidation liquida-tion trust agreement. One major exception is on the Shivwits Reservation where two tracts of irrigated land and a homestead tract, comprising 8-10 acres altogether, will be held by the Walker Bank for the use and benefit of the tribal members. The Utah bands are the second group of Indians to mave away from Federal trusteeship. A similar sim-ilar step was taken by the Indians In-dians of western Oregon under a proclamation signed by Secretary Secre-tary Season on Aug. 13, 1956. |