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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />the Indian rights if we can. <br /> <br />While we have accepted the criteria laid down in the California versus <br />Arizona case as to irrigable acreage, we have preserved our rights if <br />there are any other rights that are afforded by court decree. At the <br />present time we know what those are. I think we are ahead of perhaps <br />any reservation in the United States as far as our engineering is con- <br />cerned. As a matter of courtesy we have filed our information with the <br />state engineer, and from that basis have arrived at an agreement con- <br />cerning our rights. <br /> <br />I believe this is the only message that the tribe asked me to bring, and <br />that is of congeniality. It is one of cooperation, it is one of under- <br />standing, but it is also one of a definite determination that the <br />Indians shall not be treated as they have in the past and that our rights <br />will be recognized. <br /> <br />That is the message that the tribe wanted me to give to you, and I <br />appreciate this opportunity to do so. Thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Next on the program is the presentation by the Bureau <br />of Reclamation, and Dave Crandall, who everyone knows both in Utah and <br />Colorado, will lead off with the Bureau's presentation. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Before Dave starts, I want to point out a couple of things <br />in connection with the presentation and observations of Mr. Boyden. <br /> <br />Mr. Boyden is general counsel for the Uinta and Ouray tribes. We have <br />here also Sam Maynes who is general counsel for the Southern Ute tribe. <br />Sam, are you still here? <br /> <br />Mr. Maynes: Yes. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Sam is general counsel for the Southern Ute tribe. I must <br />point out that we have another tribe in Colorado known as the Ute Mountain <br />Ute Indian tribe. I mention that because in "the past I was the general <br />counsel for that tribe. We have some people here who are pretty well <br />acquainted with the Ute Indian tribes. As a matter of fact, my acquaint- <br />anceship with the Ute Mountain tribe goes back over a period of some <br />thirty years. We in Colorado have been attempting to work out arrange- <br />ments to satisfy the needs of the Indian tribes that we have in Colo- <br />rado. The reservation was actually established in 1868. By the terms <br />of that treaty which was ratified by Congress, this area we are in here <br />today was given to the Ute Indians. They were moved out later, as you <br />recall, as the result of the so-called Meeker Massacre. My Indian <br />friends take exception to that description of that incident. They say <br />"We don't understand the white man's language. Every time we won, you <br />call it a massacre; when you won, you call it a victory". They have a <br />point. <br /> <br />Mr. Crandall, the director of the Upper Colorado River Region of the <br />Bureau of Reclamation and his staff, will present some of the planning <br />that has been done by the Bureau of Reclamation in the White River area. <br /> <br />-57- <br />