BLACK HAWK PRODUCTIONS, LLC
Mission Statement
History as it is written by the victors gives very little insight to the Native American Indian. While writers of the time are meticulous in their depictions of their own accounts, what they write about the Native peoples are often scant and brief, and less ingenuous, and that which is left out of their accounts often speaks louder than the words they write. Due to the fact that many scholars who write Indian history rarely ask or care what the Indians they study have to say about their work, nor do they asked how they would analyze, interpret, or if they have their own version of the particular story they are writing about. The accounts are most always given from their perspective which is most often biased and filled with ambiguities, platitudes, and omissions. It is the mission of Black Hawk Productions, therefore, to the best of our ability and knowledge to write this account of Utah's Black Hawk War from the perspective of the Indian peoples as far as they have been willing or capable in assisting us. But, if the true story of the Indian peoples is ever to be told, it is they who will need to tell it.
This
website tells the story of an extraordinary Ute leader known as Black
Hawk. A man whom we feel history has mistakenly overlooked and
forgotten, a person who’s only ambition was to find peace for his
people and it cost him his life. His story in many ways exemplifies
the unbelievable agony and torment felt by all Native Peoples
throughout America. We sincerely hope you will find our work
interesting and informative.
The
BLACK HAWK WAR: Utah's Forgotten Tragedy documentary film will, for
the first time, reveal the truth of one of the darkest chapters in
western history. The story will be told respectfully and with
compassion from the perspective of the First Peoples of Utah. But our
documentary goes beyond the war as we explore its legacy of perpetual
demoralization. For Utah's American Indian peoples, the war meant the
loss of their inheritance and heritage. It was the end of a sacred
time—a time that should be honored, remembered and never forgotten.
Black Hawk
Productions
The BLACK HAWK WAR: Utah's Forgotten Dodumentary Fim Funded in part by: Utah Division of Indian Affairs The George S. Deloris Dori Eccles Foundation and Private Donors.
Filmmakers: Ron Hill Imagery and Black Hawk Productions, LLC Turtle Island Productions. Consultants: Historian/Scholar Will Bagley - Executive Director of Indian Affairs Forrest Cuch - Professor/Historian Dr. Floyd O'Neil - Dr. Daniel McCool PHD Political Science - Historian Robert Carter - Filmmaker Larry Cesspooch Ute Tribe - Venita Taveapont Director of Indian Language Program Ute Tribe - Loya Arrum Ute Tribe - Descendents of Ute Leader Black Hawk - Members of the Ute Tribe - National Forest Service Archeologist Charmain Thompson - Researcher/Documentarian Phillip B Gottfredson