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Show Tribal Business Committee Slates eet With Governor To Clarify Stand The Ute Tribal Business committee, com-mittee, headed b y Chairman, Rex Curry, was scheduled to meet with Governor J. Bracken Lee Thursday afternoon at the state capitol, to clarify its position po-sition in' the current Uintah and Ouray reservation controversy. The committee's meeting with the Governor is the outgrowth of a petition signed by 145 Ute Indians, which was submitted to Governor Lee in March, urging urg-ing him to use his influence in' bringing about an impartial investigation in-vestigation into conditions on the reservation. Bearing the signatures sig-natures of both full- and mixed- . . bloods, the petition charged that they were being socialized under un-der the Wheeler-Howard Indian reorganization act, and that hardships were resulting from the stringent regulations, placing plac-ing Indian' property in tribal ownership under the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the business committee and the Secretary of the Interior. Inter-ior. Meanwhile, Uintahs and White Rivers, at a meeting held Sunday at Whiterocks, and attended at-tended by two members of tite Business committee, expressed themselves freely as opposed to the present form of tribal government, gov-ernment, and maintained their stand that the Tribal Business committee does not speak for them. Full-bloods headed the Whiterocks White-rocks discussions. Each speaker denounced the Ute Constitution and By-Laws, authorized by the Wheeler-Howard act. All contended con-tended that these laws are not g'ood for their people; that under un-der them they can no longer enjoy a full voice in tribal affairs; af-fairs; that they cannot understand under-stand them; that they create dissatisfaction among the people; peo-ple; and that they do not want them. |