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beautiful camp sites. If Denis Julien survived the cataracts above he would most certainly have left a record on the smooth walls of Glen Canyon. A careful watch was kept for 183 miles, with field glasses, but no inscription was found below the cataracts. The sketch of a boat near his name in one place lends strength to the theory that he did navigate the river, and since no record can be found that he survived the year 1836, it seems logical that he may have been the first white victim of the treacherous rapids of Cataract Canyon.
PAHUTE INDIAN HOMELANDS By William R. Palmer Cedar City, Utah (Copyrighted 1933) Did the old timers know the Indians? Once I thought so and went out to get first-hand information from pioneers who had been among the red men since childhood. The first man answered, "Do I know Indians? I'll say I do. The dirty black beggars killed a calf of mine once and I made them give me three sacks of pine nuts for it." "What tribes have you known?" "Dog-goned if I know . That don't make any difference anyway. An Indian is an Indian and they are all alike." From the next man: "Yes, I have known every Indian that's been in this country in the last sixty years. I ought to know Indians for I grew up with 'em." What was the name of the tribe that lived at Cedar City? "We always called them Cedar Indians." What land did they own? "The lazy devils didn't have a foot of land but they claimed everything. One fall they turned their horses in our fields and we would have killed the whole tribe if Bishop Lunt had let us go." Thus the conversations turned wherever I went. Did the old timers know the Indians? What would we do if a stronger people should come in upon us, look over our country, select the fertile valleys in which we have had our headquarters, settle down there and tell us to move on? Suppose that people, in justification, told us that we had no
