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Show Indian Mission Sends Letter To Tribe Members A circular letter that was forwarded for-warded to all adult members of the Ute Indian Tribe on the Uintah Uin-tah and Ouray Reservation over the signature of James E. Bacon, president of the Uintah Basin Indian Mission, and cosigned by presidents of Moon Lake, Duchesne Du-chesne Roosevelt and Uintah L.D.S. stakes, received a favorable favor-able and complimentary reaction from Superintendent Forrest R. Stone is an announcement made by Mr. Bacon. According to Mr. Bacon, a copy of the letter was sent to Ralph M. Gelvin, director of the Phoenix Area Office. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and to the Commissioner of Indian Affiers, with a brief comment by Mr. Stone. The circular was in the form of a tribute to the tribal members mem-bers for havins received the per-capita per-capita allotment from the government gov-ernment as remuneration for losses they had suffered over the years. It also complimented the Tribal Committee and the Indian Agency officials for the educational program carried on prior to receipt of the money. Encouragement was made to abide by the counsel and advice ad-vice already given them to use their money in purchasing the necessary things, and not to be "taken' by the transient merchant mer-chant that was bound to enter thme Basin in an attempt to sell them on various and sundry schemes. "Buy clothing that is practical and food that is staple, and plan to invest in machinery, livestock and such things that will insure ' your future," the letter suggested. A paragraph was also contained con-tained relating to liquor, and a quotation from the May, 1951, New Tomahawk publication, entitled en-titled "Admonition To The Indian In-dian From An 'Old Indian,' as follows: "Liquor is strictly a white man's invention and a luxury. Let him keep it. Whenever When-ever it has been passed to us, it has always been to our financial fi-nancial loss sorrow and shame. In 86 years, I have seen naught but evil result from these liquor contracts between the two races. Let us think of the clean ways of our fathers and of the decency of the early white settlers who feared God, worked hard, andj followed honest trails." |