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![handle is hein.amindian/meautew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. roo-Second Series-3ooo]
INDIAN RIGHTs AsSOCIATION,
995 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
November 15, 1915.
THE MEANING OF THE UTE WAR.
BY M. K. SNIFFEN,
Secretary Indian Rights Association.
History has repeated itself many times in Indian Affairs,
and the recent trouble with the non-reservation Utes, in
Utah, is merely one of those incidents that were so common
in the early days of this country.
In order that we might learn what really was behind that
incident, and what actually happened in that inaccessible
region, while visiting some Indian reservations I took a
horseback trip, last September, from Cortez, Colorado, to
Bluff and vicinity in the State of Utah.
I found that there were two distinct elements among
these Utes: two small groups, under the leadership of Polk
and Posey (both of whom are reputed, generally, to be law-
less and defiant), with no settled homes, but usually camping
near Bluff, and a much larger number of industrious Indians
living on the public domain in Allen Canyon and on the
Montezuma Creek. In the trouble that was developed,
however, there was no discrimination between the good and
the bad-all were regarded in the same light, as a nuisance
(or a hindc-ance) to the white man.
The principal character in this affair was the son of Polk,
Tse-Ne-Gat (or Everett Hatch, as he is usually called),
a Ute Indian accused of murdering a Mexican sheepherder.
This matter was fully exploited in the newspapers last
spring, when it was made to appear that all the Utes in that
section were on the war-path, armed to the teeth, and
prepared to resist any effort of the authorities to arrest
Hatch. In view of this dangerous state of affairs, and
the alleged inability of the Uttited States marshal to get
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