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Show Utah Indians Now Farm Lands of Their Fathers BRIGHAM, UTAH. Descendants of Indian farmers who broke the prairie of Utah as far back as 1856 still farm their homesteads near Washakie village in the northern section of the state. While other tribes were put on reservations, the Shoshones at Washakie, under direction of early Mormon settlers, began homestead-ing homestead-ing more than 17,000 acres. Tribesmen Tribes-men used to plow the Box Elder county prairies behind their oxen and ponies while dressed in war regalia. re-galia. The Indian population at Washakie has dwindled from a peak of more than 1,000 to a little more than 100. A large part of the farming and ' grazing lands is owned by the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church and is worked by Indians although many of the redmen own their homesteads, handed down through families from the original feather-bedecked farmers. |