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Mr. Gottfredson spent many years living among the Native Indian people. He spent many hours listening to their stories, and what it means to be Indian. "These are the people who paid the ultimate price, and we owe it to them to know who they are and their side of the story." The following accounts reflect some of the lingering affects of the Black Hawk War as the Utah Indian people continue, in many ways, to suffer from perpetual generational trauma and discrimination. 

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INDIAN EDUCATION FOR ALL Utah is lagging behind several other states in its efforts to educate American Indians, according to a report from the Utah American Indian/Alaska Native Education State Plan Advisory Committee.

LEGACY OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR by Phillip B Gottfredson The one question these accounts do not answer is the Indians side of the story.

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ARTICLE BY HISTORIAN AND COLUMNIST WILL BAGLEY 2002 "Thanks to organizations like the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers, we have literally thousands of diaries and autobiographies in which the people who lived Utah’s history tell us what they saw and felt. Few of these histories are as valuable as a Danish immigrant’s (Peter Gottfredson's Indian Depredations in Utah) account of Utah’s Indian wars."

GREAT GRANDFATHER PETER GOTTFREDSON by Phillip B Gottfredson.

PROMISES BARAK OBAMA HAS MADE TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLE "My American Indian policy begins with creating a bond between an Obama administration and the tribal nations all across this country. We need more than just a government-to-government relationship; we need a nation-to-nation relationship, and I will make sure that tribal nations have a voice in the White House."

COMMENTARY by Phillip Gottfredson  A collection of commentary on various subject related to the the Black Hawk War of Utah and the Native peoples.   

 

RUSSELL MEANS A controversial patriot of the Lakota Nation. The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.

 ONE THE LIGHTER SIDE

P. GREEN AT THE CIRCUS "The man who takes the tickets at the circus eyed me suspiciously as he let me pass in on a green ticket. As near as I could read what mind he had in I his head he feared I would be eat - pronounced et - up by some of the rude and voracious animals which helped to make his circus a howling success."

MY JOURNEY by Phillip B Gottfredson What I am I must become, What I see I must try to find.

 

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