Phillip B Gottfredson has devoted the past
years since 2001 researching the Utah Black Hawk War. Mr.
Gottfredson, like his great-grandfather Peter Gottfredson, has
spent considerable time living among American Indian people and
became personally acquainted with their culture and traditions
by participating in many of their sacred ceremonies and living
the life ways. He received a
certificate of recognition from the State of Utah Division
of Indian Affairs in appreciation for his advocacy for the
Indian peoples of Utah in 2008.
Mr. Gottfredson was asked by Forrest
Cuch Executive Director of Indian Affairs to make a documentary
film of the Black hawk War and has been working on the film
project since 2005. The project is Funded in part by Utah
Division of Indian Affairs, the George S. Deloris Dori Eccles
Foundation and Private Donors.
Filmmakers are Black Hawk
Productions, LLC, Ron Hill Imagery, and Turtle Island
Productions.
Consultants are 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.
Source Material:
Indian Depredations In Utah by Peter
Gottfredson, Utah’s Black Hawk War John Alton Peterson, American
Indian Prophecies Kurt Kaltreider, PhD., A History of Utah’s
American Indians Edited by Forest Cuch, Massacre at Mountain
Meadows by Will Bagley, Book Of The Hopi by Frank Waters,
Writings of John D. Lee by Samuel Nyal Henrie, Life Among The
Apaches by John C. Cremony 1850, For America To Live Europe Must
Die - by Russell Means, Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt, The
Sacred Pipe by Joseph Epes Brown, The Paiutes of Pyramid Lake by
Ruth Herman, Wisdom of the Elders by David Suzuki, I Will Fight
No More Forever Chief Joseph, The Utes Must Go by Peter R.
Decker, Red Twilight by Val FitzPatrick, 1491 Charles C. Mann,
Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven Newcomb, Guns Germs and
Steel by Jared Diamond, Jacob Hamblin His Life in His Own Words,
Bear River Massacre by Rod Miller, Founding of Fort Utah by
Robert Carter, Shoshoni Frontier Bear River by Brigham Madsen,
The Utes Must Go by Peter Decker, Thunder Over the OCHOCO by
Gayle ONTKO. Note: These books are
available for purchase through our online
bookstore.
The Utah State Government Archives,
University of Utah Special Collections, Brigham Young University
Special Collections, Salt Lake City Library, Private Journals
and Personal Interviews of Descendents of early Utah Pioneers,
and oral histories of members of various Indian tribes
throughout the western United States.
