Published: June 29, 2003 By Deseret News, Larry Weist HEBER CITY — A small group of Utahns — descended from American Indians — is fighting a complex battle to win back rights they claim the United States government has taken from them. The group is called Mixed Blood Uintas and during a lengthy meeting here Saturday with their lawyer, they discussed their plight and their strategy to win back their status after the federal government "terminated" them as Indians beginning with the Ute Partition Act of 1954. Termination means a person is no longer recognized by the federal government as an Indian. The Mixed Bloods filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last fall in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to reclaim their status as Indians. Their lawyer, Dennis G. Chappabitty, a Comanche who practices Indian law in Sacramento, Calif., told about 50 people at Saturday's meeting that their case is one of the last remaining injustices in America. The whole Ute Tribe was targeted for t...