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58. Dady to William Zimmerman, Jr., asst. CIA, March 28, 1936.
59. Dady to Collier, August 17, 1934, 99348-1934, CG-370. Of the grand total of $421,995.00, $144,729.10
was spent (primarily for the Barona colonists), and the $277,265.90 balance remained in the U.S.
Treasury.
60. Twenty-three per cent of the Baron Long petitioners were non-residents in 1931.
61. Ibid; Shipek, Pushed into the Rocks (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), 188-191.
62. The Soil Erosion Service agreed to handle that problem if Indians furnished the labor. Box 297,
Removal of El Capitan and Los Conejos Enrollees to the Viejas ranch, 1929-1934, RG 75, MIA,
na-LN, “Purchase of Viejas” folder, October 16, 1934.
63. Telegram, Collier to Dady, [October 1934], Office of CIA: Collier Papers, Box 2; Atwood to Collier,
October 1, 1934; Dady to Collier, October 5, 1934, 99348-1907 CG-370 part 9 2/2; Conejos band petition
to CIA, September 16, 1934, 99348-1907 CG-370 Part 10 1/2.
64. Dady to Collier, October 6, 1934 encloses petitions, 99348-1907 CG-370 part 9, 2/2.
65. Ventura Paipa to [?], March 18, 1936; Los Conejos petition to Harold Ickes, July 26, 1935, 99348-
1907 CG, Part 10 1/1: February 12, 1934 document hired the attorneys; another dated February
14, 1934, is a petition from the elected and acting spokesman and committeemen: Ventura Paipa,
Sam and Jack Brown, Jesus and Felix Paipa. A meeting October 19, 1934 at Los Conejos reviewed
and approved the final list of shareholders.
66. Dady to Collier, October 18, 1934, 99348-1907 CG-370.
67. Fry to Dady, November 12, 1934, Box 299, folder: El Capitan.
68. Ibid.; Dady to Atwood, November 8, 1934, Box 1, File A--Miscellaneous 000, RG75, NA-LN; Pyle,
Hydraulic Engineer, to Day, November 27, 1934.
69. A majority of Viejas enrollees lived elsewhere until the homes were completed: Conejos, San
Diego, Johnstown, Descanso, and Campo.
70. Stella Atwood to Walter Woelke, BIA, October 30, 1934, 99348-1907 CG-370.
71. Baron Long Monthly Narrative Reports, 1935-37, loose copies, Box 290, RG 75, MIA, NA-LN.
72. Telegram from Jesus and Feli[x] Paipa, et al.,” late 1936, Baron Long Monthly Narrative Reports,
1935-1937, Box 290, RG 75, MIA, NA-LN.
73. Chet Barfield, Capitan Grande newspaper article, March 19, 1995, http://www.redact.org/wcc/
info/ut-article950319.html (accessed May 12, 2003).
74. Telegrams of protest to Collier and Congressmen from Capitan Grande Reservation committee
(Jesus Paipa, Feliz, Paipa, Sam and Jack Brown) protest Dady’s “arbitrary” refusal to concede to
their request, late March and April 12, 1936, and from the Agua Caliente Reservation Committee,
Willie Marcus, Baisto Sol, Francisco and Albert Patencio. RG75, 9257-1936 Mission-056, NA1.
75. $21,600 had accrued in interest on the $361,428, plus $35, 567.20 for second purchase of Capitan
Grande land, bring total to $418,595.20 as of January 1935. 171 Law 2/4 Federal Acts of Congress
1/2, NARA-LN, RG75 MIA, 1920-53, Box 29 (171-209).
76. Collier to Will Rogers, March 6, 1936, Collier Papers, Records of the Office of the CIA.
77. Collier says Willis “is proved to have accepted payments of money from white parties …while
purportedly representing the bands.” The BIA’s argument was that Willis’s ambitions were
contrary to interests of the ward and therefore could not be financially rewarded. Baron Long
petition, January 10, 1936 and Castillo and Willis to Collier March 20, 1936, 9257-1936 Mission-056,
rg75, NA1.
78. Although Sutton’s 1965 dissertation described housing on both reservations as sub-standard,
a 1975 study comparing the housing of Barona and Viejas reservations found 29.2 percent of it
“excellent” at Barona and none at Viejas; 31.8 in good condition at Barona and 14.7 percent at
Viejas, 17 percent fair at Barona, 26.8 percent at Viejas; 22 percent of the housing was in poor
condition at Barona compared to 58.5 percent at Viejas. Barona-Viejas-Capitan Grande Indian Reservation
Planning Studies; 2 vol. Barona and Viejas, C.P.A/1032.34, Diversified Technology, Inc. San
Diego, 1975.
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