Indians of North America -- Washington (State); Yakama Indians -- Government relations
But Mr. Goudy is not the only allottee to suffer by this
"past-all-understanding" methods of the Indian Service. There are other
Yakimas on the Paiute Ditch. Louis Mann has two inherited eighties below
the Goudy lateral and this year has experienced unlooked for trouble.
The Wapato Canal carries water to the Paiute, and a charge has been
levied against the water users. The Agency claims that not more than one
fifth of the water used is now supplied by the Paiute source, but a
fairer estimate would place it at one half. The Indians contend that
they have always had sufficient water from the Paiute alone, that the
Indian Service has seized upon their forty-one year-old ditch without
their knowledge or consent, and are now charging them for water which
they can not get in sufficient quantity for their crops. Personal
observation discloses the astounding fact that the head gate of the Mann
lateral is under lock and key, that the intake is at a very low
pressure, affording a water supply inadequate for the crops planted, and
not on par with the money demanded of him by the Departmental
authorities; while lower down on the Paiute the lateral head gate in use
by whites is without lock and is under an exceedingly high pressure,
insuring to the users thereof the full and unlimited control of their
own water supply. Can any fair minded citizen blame an Indian for
putting up "the same old howl that he has howled for the last ten
years?" Apropos to the foregoing facts are the following communications
which are self-explanatory. The =Neekass Canal= is the Paiute Ditch. The
name used is that pertaining to the surrounding country: "where horses
were left."
=INDIAN WATER USERS OF THE PIUTE DITCH IN COUNCIL=
WHITE SWAN, WASH., May 28, 1920.
Mr. DON M. CARR:
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