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Show Letters To The Editor Green River is a navigable stream, there are many beavers along its course. Much of the river riv-er runs through Indian territory! Indians can travel along the river in a boat. They can trap along the banks. The same rule applies to trapping as to boating. The Utah State Fish and Game Commission is limiting the Indians In-dians through the Tribal Council fo.r the purpose of controlling white trappers. They have the idea that if Indians obtain permits, per-mits, then the white trappers will turn their beaver pelts to the Indians and have the Indians sell them for the white trapper. What is happening to all the increase of the beaver along the Green River? The Indians are not allowed to trap them. Are they dying of old age? Where do they go? What becomes of them? Are the white "state trappers" catching beaver? They must go somewhere since the Indian In-dian trappers are only allowed to trap along canals. All beavers, are trapped on white lands by the State of Utah, controlled state trappers. These pelts are taken to Salt Lake City and sold at a public auction. It is hard for the people of Uintah Uin-tah and Duchesne counties to get them, skins from animals caught in our own streams. This is not right and it seems that politicians politi-cians are attempting to limit the trapping by Indians upon Indian lands. They are fouling the Indian In-dian Tribal Council. They are making it impossible for Indian trappers to make a living. The Indian trappers are not hired at salaries by the Indian Department, but white trappers make a living and are employed by the State of Utah Fish and Game Department, whether they catch one beaver or not. Why should the Indians and the Tribal Council do what the white man asks them when it is making their poor people poorer. This is what is happening. The Indian Tribal Council is listening to the white man and being ruled by the white man's talk. Uintah and Ouray Indian Trappers |