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Contains letter and petition referring to the rights of the Pima IndiansOS7000 Zeutschel, 400 dpi, 8 bit,We have been in close touch with the needs of the Pimas for several years and believe that their best interests demand an investigation within the reservation and vicinity thereof by your committee, so that the facts affecting their right to land and water may be made a matter of record for your future use in their behalf. Very respectfully, yours, S. M. Brosius,Agent Indian Rights Association.A PETITION ADDREDDED TO THE INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION BY THE CHIEFS OF THE PIMA TRIBE OF INDIANS. July 31, 1911. Gentlemen: We, the undersigned chiefs of the Pima Tribe of Indians, residing on the Gila River Reservation, Ariz., hereby petition you for assistance on behalf of our people. We earnestly hope that you can bring the matter below mentioned to the attention of the Secretary of the Interior and present our petition before Congress before our water rights in the Gila River are forever lost to us: (1)We do not want to be moved from our homes, but ask to have water supplied to our farms as they are at present situated, which we believe is entirely practicable. (2)We earnestly request that our right to the natural low-water-mark flow of the Gila River, or such part of it as we were accustomed to use before it was all stolen from us by the whites, be recognized by the Government, and that suit be brought to have such water restored to us. (3)We further request that the Government will itself retain the ownership of the San Carlos Reservoir site and not give it away to private interests; and that if the reservoir be constructed (which construction will completely shut off the flow of water in the Gila River), that such part of the natural constant flow of the Gila River, as our land is entitled to receive by prior right of use of said water, be furnished to us out of the reservoir perpetually.(4) We have no confidence in the wells which are being put down by the Government to supply a small part of our land with assured water. The machinery is complicated and expensive and the water bad, and such a system is not suited to our needs. We beg that the Government will order that no more wells be sunk at San Tan. (5)We request that you try to get us gravity water, such as could be obtained in quantity from the San Carlos Reservoir or the originally proposed Queen Creek Reservoir. We know that the gravity system of irrigation is the only practicable one for us, and we are acquainted with it, and the water supplied would be good water, and would not ruin our lands with alkali, as the well water is likely to do. (6)We request that 10 acres with assured water be allotted to every individual of our tribe, and that the rest of the reservation be allotted as grazing land. (7)We desire to have a representative of the Government sent by the Secretary of the Interior to confer with us, and to examine th