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Show I Reservation News . . ; About The X UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION f JLAND ACQUISITION The Ute Indian TnJbe, at the present 'time, is engaged tin toe aquisdtion of 678 acres of grazing graz-ing land in Avintaquin Canyon. Such actMi) will block one solid unit of Tribal grazing land within with-in this particular area. Various ranchers and stockmen owning grazing land wdthilni Tribal units, who wish to sell or exchange their holdings, are urged to contact Albert H. Harris, Government Gov-ernment Land Field Agent, at the Uintah and Ouray Agelncy, Fort Duchesne, Utah, and discuss their proposals. The Ute Indian Tribe will pay cash or will exchange lands of equal value in -'any transact! trans-act! on. R-N SCHOOL ENROLLMENT The enrollment of Ute Indian children in the public schools of Uintah and Duchesne Counties reached a record number oin: Sept. 30, 1953. Uintah County boasts an enrollment of 360 and Duchesne County has 68 for a total of 428 an the two school districts That number includes only those that are H degree or more of Indian blood. R-N IN ARIZONA Mr. H. W. G-ilmoore, Superintendent, Superin-tendent, and Asahel Perry Agricultural Agri-cultural (Extension Agent, attended attend-ed the cattle sale on the Kaibab Reservation! in Arizona, Tuesday of ,this week. They also ' held a conference with the Kaibab Tribal Trib-al Officials concerning economic conditions on the reservation. R-N IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM The immunization program in the public schools is now under way and Indian parents are requested re-quested to cooperate in every way possible. The parents are required to sign a permit authorizing the immunization of their children against the various diseases. The permits have been given to the children for the signature of the parent and the parent is requested to sign and return it to the school immediately. If you have not received one of the authorization authoriza-tion blanks, you should call at the school where your child is enrolled en-rolled and sign one immediately. R-N GIVEN BASEBALL AWARDS Monday evening, October 12, 1953 the Uwitah and Ouray Leg. ion Post No. 126 honored the Post Junior American Legion Baseball Team with a turkey dinner din-ner in . the Frontier Grill. The Uintah & Ouray Junior Baseball team worn the district No. 9 championship during the past season. The team was presented a trophy cup by District Athletic Officer, Jack Harmsbon, and individual in-dividual minature baseballs were presented to players, Frank Ar-rowchis, Ar-rowchis, Virgil Burns, Floyd Cau-dell Cau-dell Charles Daniels, Terry Daniels, Dan-iels, Alvn Denver, Charles Denver, Den-ver, Allen Iorg, Raymond Murray, Mur-ray, Charles Queacut, Jimmy Sutteer, Larry Zuf elt, Coach Paul Corwin and Post Athletic Officer Henry Cuch. An individual award was presented to Charles Denver who was Captain of the Championship Champ-ionship team. A short report on his participation partici-pation in the activities at Boys' State was given by Charles Daniels Dan-iels who was sponsored by Uintah & Ouray Post No. 126. Charles also was a participant in the annual an-nual All-Star baseball game in Salt Lake City, being composed of players from the various Junior Jun-ior American Legion teams in Utah. R-N EDUCATION By Charles E. Ruel The Educator must take into consideration the three groups or classes of children we send to their schools. First, there is the adjust group of childrefni who come from homes where modern methods of living is found. The problems of these children are the same as those that face the white - children, except in most 'instances it will be a rural problem, prob-lem, for the Indian children. These children! will meet and solve their problems as any other average child. Second, is the semi-adjusted group of children who have some peculiar problems. They come from homes that,, are not e-amles e-amles of modern methods of living nor the lold Indian way of living. They come from homes that want to clilng to the old way of .the Inlian life, but still trying at the same time to "keep one foot tin. ithe doorway of the mod- ern way of living. This child will wander aimlessly if not provided proper training and guidance by sympathetic teachers and right thinking parents. Third is the unadjusted group of children who come from homes where the parents do not want to change iTrom their old Indian ways, they are satisfied as they are or dissatisfied, disillusioned and staring with sad faces toward to-ward the glories of the Indians' past before the coming of the white man. One of the major difficulties of this unadjusted group of children chil-dren is to speak iln English and to think in terms of the English language. The lack of previous knowledge of good English is a real handicap to these children. They are extremely self-conscious of this handicap when they are placed in such a position where they have to use the English language it forces them to become be-come shy and shun social contact in and out of school with English speaking people. This handicap makes some appear ap-pear to be sullen and lacking In intelligence, but in their hearts these children) want your friendship friend-ship and social contact. You will ' find that their emotional behav-ior behav-ior is very much the same as yours and that their intelligence Is normal. |