Among these accounts you will find a detailed
timeline of the war, copies of spurious and manipulative treaties,
along with maps detailing the Black Hawk War battle grounds and Indian
populations, and other related insights into Utah's dusky past,
with a few BTW's thrown in for interest.
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WHERE DID SANPETE GET IT'S NAME by Lyle
Fletcher Sanpete Messenger
As told him by Phillip B Gottfredson
MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY OF UTAH
Brigham Young paid his all
Mormon militia one and a half million dollars from church funds to
"get rid of the Indians" in Utah territory.
Later he was reimbursed by the United States Congress.
From 1847 to 1909
THE EZRA
BOOTH LETTERS
It is well known that the ostensible design of
the Mormonites in settling in the western part of Missouri, is to
convert the Indians to the faith of Mormonism. In this, the leaders
appear to have in view, as a mode, the Jesuits of the 16th century,
who established themselves in South America, by gaining an entire
ascendancy over the hearts and consciences of the natives, and thereby
became their masters.
THE NAMES
A list of some 640 names both Indian and
non-Indian that are mentioned in Peter Gottfredson's book Indian
Depredations in Utah. You might find your ancestor in here.
TREATIES OF THE BLACK
HAWK WAR
Contrary to popular folklore, there were no treaties made between
Mormon settlers and the First People. Yet virtually every town in Utah
lays claim to treaties being signed in their town that concluded the
war. These claims are simply not true. Dr. Floyd O'Neil University of
Utah said, "They were only agreements. Only the federal government had
the authority to make treaties with the Indian people." These phony
treaties were divisive and used to coerce and deceive the Indians into
giving up their homeland to the LDS Church before the United States
government took it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG ON THE "PROPER WAY TO TREAT THE INDIANS"
"Treat
them kindly, and treat them as Indians, and not as your equals." -1854
FACTOIDS OF THE BLACK HAWK
WAR
Facts of Chiefs, warriors, and etc. of the
Black Hawk War
TIMOTHY H.
O'SULLIVAN'S MANIFEST DESTINY
Racial and Cultural Discrimination at it's
worst!
MAPS MAPS MAPS
1866 Map of
the Black Hawk War Created by Phillip Gottfredson
See where the battles took place during the
war!
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Tribes of The American Indian Nation map.
2. Tribal
Locations in America Past and Present
Map
Source Material for
the Utah Black Hawk War Documentary Film Project
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."
PETER AND HANS
GOTTFREDSON Both Peter and his brother Hans were friends of
the Ute and Paiute during the 1860's and spent much of their time with
them.
"They loved hunting, and as scouts and traders they were far
superior to white men."
TALES OF THE OLD WEST
1857-1874 by Peter Gottfredson
(Auto-Biography)
"One sailor was not working to suit the Captain, he picked up
a rope with a heavy hook in the end, and from behind struck the sailor
on the head with the hook, killing him instantly. I stood close by
watching..."
PETER GOTTFREDSON IN THE INDIAN CAMPS
He was keenly aware of and witness to the exploitation that encircled
him and the Native people he loved and respected as his own.
PETER GOTTFREDSON'S
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
He spent much of his life living in the Ute
Indian camps during the Black Hawk War.
EULOGY to Peter
Gottfredson 1938
"He was a busy man and the men who think of
Peter Gottfredson are the men who think of the grandness of his
character."
GREAT GRANDFATHER PETER
GOTTFREDSON
by Phillip B Gottfredson.
MY JOURNEY
by Phillip B Gottfredson What I am I must
become, What I see I must try to find.
