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Show 1 Reservation News - - - I ffl About The $ UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION MEETING AT FILLMORE ON INDIAN LEGISLATION A meeting was held in the Fillmore courthouse Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1953, by Senator Arthur Ar-thur V. Watkins and Indian groups from the Shivwits. Cedar City, Indian Peaks, Koosharem, Skull Valley, Kanosh and Washakie Wash-akie bands of Paiute and Shoshone Sho-shone Indians. Norman G. Holmes, chief clerk of the Uintah Uin-tah and Ouray Agency represented repre-sented Supt. H. W. Gilmore, who was in California at the time. Peru Farver, Superintendent of the Fort Hall Indians Agency in Idaho, represented the Washakie Wash-akie band of Shoshone Indians at the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to acquaint the Indian groups listed above with a proposed pro-posed bill to be introduced into Congress by Senator Watkins at this session, which will release them from Federal control and .thereby give them full citizenship. citizen-ship. At the present time, the Shivwits, Shiv-wits, Cedar City, Indian Peaks, Koosharem and Kanosh bands are under the jurisdiction of the Uintah & Ouray Agency at Fort Duchesne, Utah; the Skull Valley band is under the jurisdiction juris-diction of the Nevada Agency in Stewart, Nevada,, and the Washakie band is under the jurisdiction jur-isdiction of the Fort Hall Agency Ag-ency in Fort Hall. Idaho. All of the groups are located hundreds of miles from their home agency and do not receive re-ceive a great deal of assistance from the government because of the long distance. It was felt that these Indians would be better bet-ter off under the State and v county in which they live as the machinery has already been operating to take care of the non-Indian groups for Health, Education and Welfare needs. There were Indian representatives represen-tatives from each band except the Washakie group. In addition to the bands listed in the bill for release, the Kai- bab band of Paiutes located in the northwest coTner of Arizona and three representatives from the Ute Indian tribe, of Fort Duchesne, Utah, sat in on the meeting as observers for their respective groups. R-N CHANGE IN HOURS A change in the clinic hours of Dr. P. A. Tirador, senior medical officer, and Monica Schumacher, public health nurse, has been made. Beginning Begin-ning Jan. 11, 1954, the new clinic hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. every day except Saturday, Sat-urday, Sunday and holidays, and Monday and Friday, from 1.00 to 4:00 in the afternoon. There are no afternoon clinic hours on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. All Ute Indians are requested to have a chest X-ray. Everyone Every-one should have an X-ray of the chest once a year, oftener ior those who have had tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, or who are susceptible to this disease, or who are contacts con-tacts of tuberculosis patients. X-rays are available during clinic hours at Ft. Duchesne. R-N MEDICAL HELP Dr. Harry Berman, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist from Salt Lake City, will be at the Hanson Hotel in Roosevelt, Friday, Fri-day, January 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There are a large number of Indian children on the reservation who are in need of glasses. Many of the children are failing in school because they cannot see to study. Parents Par-ents are urged to take their children to see Dr. Berman for an eye examination and glasses fitted if needed. R-N OPENS TAX OFFICE Homey Secakuku, head of the Ute Indian Tax Division, has opened his office in the basement base-ment of the Agency Headquarters Headquar-ters at Fort Duchesne. He wishes wish-es to announce that it is again time for the Indians to start filing their 1953 income tax return. re-turn. The return must be filed on or before March 15, 1954. Mr. Secakuku will assist anyone any-one in filing the return, if they need help. If you need help in filing the 1953 income tax return, re-turn, bring the blank form to Mr. Secakuku's office immediately. immed-iately. R-N HEARING ON CASES ABOUT INDIAN CLAIMS The Ute Indians who are interested, in-terested, are invited to attend a hearing by the Commissioner appointed by the Court of Claims of the United States in Salt Lake City, beginning Jan. 11, 1954. The Commissioner will take testimony and hear claims filed against the United States by the Ute Tribe. The lav firm of Wilkinson, Boyden, Cragun and Barker, are handling hand-ling the cases for the Ute Indians, |