Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1872

Ute; ShoshoneUintahExcerpts concerning Utah from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs makes distinctions between policies pertaining to "hostile" tribes and those pertaining to hospitable tribes. The Commissioner describes the tribes living in Utah and discusses the Shoshones' lack of a reservation and the Weber Utes' lifestyle and methods of subsistence. The Commissioner describes the development and use of the Uintah Reservatio