APPENDIX O. 



INDIANS OF UTAH. 



The following communication from Dr. Garland Hurt, who for several years was 

 an Indian agent under the General Government in Utah, will be of interest to all who 

 take an interest in ethnological subjects. I cannot agree, however, with the doctor 

 in the idea which he appears to hold forth as to the original disparity of the races, and 

 that any mode of treatment of the Indian t^ribes which ignores this doctrine, or rather 

 which is based on the doctrine of the original unity of the race, must be attended with 

 failure. I know it is the habit of many excellent and scientific men, as the doctor 

 has done, to leave out in their philosophy a great truth — the greatest that lias been 

 divulged to the world — that the great I AM has spoken to man in his ignorance, and 

 has given to him certain primary truths, which if he regard, he will assuredly live in 

 light; but which if he disregard, he will as assuredly walk in darkness himself, and 

 lead others into darkness. Among these great primary truths, I hold, is the unity of 

 the race; and before any one, in my judgment, has a right to disbelieve it, he must 

 first show that the source of knowledge of the Holy One, the Bible, which unbelievers 

 have as yet only served to strengthen by their cavils and objections, is untrue, and 

 therefore unworthy of being received as the grand text-book of individuals as well as 

 of nations. This 'the history of that work through the ages which are gone, its internal 

 evidences, and its acknowledged bearing on the happiness of the nations of the earth 

 which have sincerely embraced it, show they will never be able to do. So far from 

 it, it is the belief of the writer (however it may be the fashion of the mere moralist to 

 deny it and sometimes to deride it) the greatest specimen of statesmanship is yet to be 

 exhibited in the condition of a kingdom whose controlling officers shall be like Joseph 

 and Daniel of Bible history and Washington of modern times, whose only fear seems 

 to have been lest they should do wrong and run counter to the Divine mind. 



Dr. Garland Hurt to Captain Simpson. 



Washington, D. C, Map 2, 1860. 



Dear Sir : In reply to your inquiries for information concerning the Indians in 

 the Territory of Utah, I would remark that numerous tribes are designated by persons 

 living in the Territory, which, in my opinion, are susceptible of the following divisions 

 and subdivisions, viz : 



Utahs: Pah-Utahs, Yamp-Pah-Utahs, Cheveriches, Pah-Vantes, San-pitches, 

 Py-eeds. 



