USH Newspaper

I read the Salt Lake Herald from Salt Lake City, Utah that was published on September 16th 1880. The paragraph details an Indian fight that broke out over the marriage of a girl. One Navajo Indian and one Ute Indian were with their friends and involved in a knife fight because they both wanted to marry the same girl. In the end the Ute Indian was killed and the Navajo Indian, presumably got the girl. Another paragraph titled, "The Indian Census" describes the dividing into four places where the Indians live. Different military and political figures were assigned to the four divisions and each figure, or special agent as they are called, is supposed to take note of the industrial and educational involvement of all the Indians they are in charge of and report back to the agencies. The special agents are to put the various Indian tribes in camps and it is expected to take up to six months to tally and gather all information because there are so many Indians and they are all described as "roaming." The people described in the newspaper sound hostile towards the Indians and view the Indians as roaming nomads who shouldn't be dealt with.