1830 Indian Removal Act
was signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. Its purpose to remove all Native peoples east of the Mississippi to the western regions of the Mississippi. Virtually the entire Native population in the southeastern section of the United States were forced to relocate to the west known as "The Trail of Tears." It gave birth to Settler Colonialism.
1831 Letters of Ezra Booth: Mormonism
Although their previous efforts had not succeeded, they remained committed to the Indian enterprise. A commandment specified that Cowdery and his associates should receive a written recommendation, signed by the Elders, to present to the Indian agent in order to secure permission to visit the Indians in their settlements.
1832 Manifest Destiny
The 1832 Supreme Court declared the Indian Removal Act unconstitutional, but already irreversible damage had been caused
to First Nations. In time, the Doctrine of Discovery would become Manifest Destiny to further empower Settler-Colonialism. "With a bible in one hand, and a gun in the other they came to save the heathans from hell... and get rich."
*THE BLACK HAWK WAR BEGINS - Moonch is Chief
Mormon colonists, led by Brigham Young and a party of 130 LDS members, peacefully entered the Wasatch Front of the Great Basin on July 24, 1847. Timpanogos Chiefs and kin were camped at nearby hot springs. Kanosh, Tabby, Washakie, Little Wolf, Wanship, Little Chief, Kone, Blue Shirt, Old Elk (Moonch), Opecarry, Old Battiest, Tintic, Portservic, Sowiette, Angatewats, Petnick, Walkara, Graspero, Niequia, and Antero. The Timpanogos were the first Tribe Brigham encountered in the Great Basin. A peaceful people, the Timpanogos coexisted harmoniously with the newcomers, helping them through the first winter. "There wasn't a Indian problem in Utah Territory until the Mormons came, then there was a Mormon problem."
The Timpanogos Nation is Snake-Shoshone
Phillip B Gottfredson explains that the Timpanogos Nation and the Ute Nation are distinctly different Tribes with different origins, bloodlines, and customs. The Timpanogos Nation is Snake-shoshone and was never part of the Ute Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation.
1776 - 1873 Timpanogos Nation Biography: The Black Hawk War
The Timpanogos Nation was first documented by Spanish explorer Juan Rivera in 1765. In 1776, explorers Dominguez and Escalante also recorded their presence. The arrival of Mormon settler colonialism in 1847, followed by Brigham Young's Extermination Order in 1849, precipitated the Black Hawk War and ultimately led to the forced removal of the Timpanogos Nation to the Uinta Valley Reservation in 1873.
*Extermination of the Timpanogos Nation Begins
1849 The Sensless Murder of Old Bishop
Richard A. Ivie, Y. Rufus Stoddard, and Gerome Zabriskie murdered an Indian the settlers called Old Bishop at Fort Utah, accusing him of stealing a shirt.
1849 Battle Creek Canyon Massacre. Pleasant Grove, Ut.
1850 Brigham Young's "Extermination Order."
Fort Utah, Provo, triggered a series of events spanning twenty-six years of tumultuous warfare.
1850 Fort Utah Massacre
Provo, Ut. In total, one militia man and an estimated 102 Timpanogos were killed at Fort Utah and Table Point. The corpses were beheaded and sold for as much as $100 each.
1850 Timpanogos Chief Moonch Is Killed
aka Old Elk, was mortally wounded at the Fort Utah massacre in 1850, and decapitated.
Wakara(Walker) becomes Chief
1851 Richville Raided Richfield, Utah
1851 Porter Rockwell murders 5 Indian prisoners Scull Valley
1851 Murder of (Washear) Squash Head Springville, Utah.
1852 Mormons used slavery as a tool of redemption
"The requirement for ownership of Indian slaves was only having to be in possession of one. Utah is unique in that it had an active enslavement of both Africans and Indians." (Wikipedia)
1853 Gunnison Massacre at Hinkley, Millard County
1853 Ivie kills Indians; begins Walker War Springville
1853 Attack on Willow Creek Mona
1853 Parley's Park John Dixon, John Quayle, John Hoagland John Knight killed.
1853 FOUR MEN KILLED AT UINTAH SPRINGS
SANPETE COUNTY.
*1853 Nephi 8 Indians killed Peter Gottfredson's account.
*153 years later the remains are found in Nephi during constraction: See Secrate of The Bones at Nephi. "It's a situation where you see people down on the ground, with their heads lowered and then shot in the back of the head," Rood said.
1853 Moshoquop and son killed
1853 William Mills and John Warner killed Manti
1853 Fernee Tindrell killed Santiquin
1853 Uintah Springs near Moroni 4 Mormons killed
1853 Sanpete County Chases Sawmill burned
1853 Spring City Allred settlement burned
1854 Brigham Young His "Proper Way To Treat The Indians" Treat them kindly, and treat them as Indians, and not as your equals.
1854 Treaty with Walker and Kanosh ends the Walker War.
1854 William and Warren Weeks killed Cedar Valley
1855 Chief Wakara dies from poisoning
Arapeen Becomes principal Chief
1855 Wakara's brother Arapeen becomes Chief
1856 Salt Creek Massacre
During the Utah Black Hawk War, on June 4th 1856. Jens Terklesen and wife Christian E. Kjerluf were massacred by
Indians in Salt Creek Canyon while
traveling unarmed on their way to Sanpete Valley.
1856 The Tintic War Cedar Valley
1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre near St. George
1858 Chicken Creek
On October 15, 1858, the remains of and Samuel Brown, of Fillmore, Millard County, were found is a state of decomposition near Chicken Creek bridge, Juab County.
1858 Johstons Army Arrives
Brigham Young orders Lot Smith to burn US Goverment Army's wagons, take all their supplies, and cattle.
1860 Camp Floyd Peaceable Indian murdered
1860 Chief Arapeen Dies and his brother Tabby becomes Chief of the Timpanogos Nation.
Tabby Becomes principal Chief of The Timpanogos
1861 Lincoln sets aside land for the Uinta Valley Reservation for the "Indians of Utah," the Timpanogos who are Indigenous to Utah Territory.
1863 Bear River Massacre Cache Valley
1863 Chief Little Soldier attacks a platoon of soldiers at Pleasant Grove
1865 Uintah Valley Reservation Is created
1865 Manti John Lowry triggers Black Hawk War
"It was a matter of supremacy between the whiteman and the Indian."
1865 War Chief is passed from Arapean's son Jake to Black Hawk who then becomes War Chief.
Black Hawk becomes war-Chief of the Timpanogos
1865 Barney Ward and Peter Ludvigson killed.
1865 INDIANS GO ON THE WAR PATH
On the 9th of April, a treaty with the Indians was arranged for at Manti, in Sanpete County. Some horses and cattle had been stolen by the Indians.
1865 Grass Valley Massacre
Mormon soldiers surrounded a Timpanogos camp and brutally mudering women, men, and children.
1865 The Spanish Fork Treaty
(Black Hawk War Treaty was never ratified by Congress)
1866 Circleville Massacre
April 21, 1866, the most gruesome massacre in Utah's history occurred in Circleville during the Mormon's Black Hawk War, when colonists, led by Bishop William Jackson Allred cut the throats of 26 Koosharem Paiute men, women, and children. The victims were buried in a mass grave.
*1866 June 10, The Battle At Gravelly Ford,
Timpanogos War-Chief Black Hawk is mortally wounded near Sceipio.
1866 June 18, Chief Sanpitch, The Father of Black Hawk
is murdered at Birch Creek near Sanpete, Utah
1866 Jun 26, Spanish Fork Diamond Creek Battle
Because there are conflicting historical accounts regarding the Diamond Creek Battle, historian Phillip B Gottfredson spent considerable time researching on site where the battle took place to bring clarity to this important event.
1866 Aug The Old Peace Treaty Tree
A tribute to Ephraim, Utah preserving the old Peace Treaty Tree. Also, Benjamin Johnson and his Timpanogos friend Guffic.
1866 Chief Sowiette
Sowiette was the eldest of the brothers. When the Mormons came to Utah in 1847, Sowiette admonished his brothers not to fight the Mormons.
*Black Hawk's Mission Of Peace Begins
1867 Black Hawk meets with Indian agent Franklin
Taking upon himself the agony of his people, Black Hawk handed Franklin his knife and would ask him to cut off his hair to symbolically demonstrate his sincerity in wanting peace.
1867 Black Hawk Meets With Chief Tabby August 17th, Black Hawk met with his uncle Timpanogos Chief Tabby, who had made preparations to join his warriors with Black Hawk's men.
1867 Aug , Heber Treaty Chief Tabby and Joseph Murdock meet This was not a binding treaty, it was an agreement for peace.
1867 Pine Valley Eleven Indians Killed
1868 Wm. Allred Murders Two Indians
1868 INDIAN GRATITUDE On their return they came across the sick Indian sitting up against a tree smoking a pipe. The men still wanted to kill him, but father wouldn't let them.
Chief Black Hawk dies of wound from gravelly ford
*1870 The Burial of Timpanogos Chief Black Hawk had come full circle when, on September 26, 1870, at the age of 35, the Chief's loving kin honorably laid him to rest on a hillside overlooking Spring Lake above Payson, Utah, the place of his birth.
The Timpanogos Are Sent To The Uintah Valley Resevation
1871 Timpanogos removed from the Wasatch to the Uintah Valley Reservation Approximately 1200 Timpanogos were made to walk 124 miles to the Uintah Valley Reservation. In the first winter 500 died from starvation and disease.
1872 Tabby can't control his warriors
1872 Spring City Daniel Miller Killed Daniel Miller killed, died in Peter Gottfredson's arms.
*The Utah Black Hawk War - Post War Period
1873 MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTAH "Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah" was prepared by the Legislature of Utah in 1873 and sent to the United States Congress. It is a bill asking Congress for reimbursement of over one-million dollars in expenses incurred by Brigham Young's private militia and the Nauvoo Legion, to exterminate the Indigenous population in Utah.
*1919 Black Hawk's Gravesite Robbed For Amusement
Placed in the window of a hardware store, Spanish Fork, then moved to Temple Square, Salt Lake City.
The Timpanogos Nation Is Snake-Shoshone Not Ute
The Timpanogos Nation clearly states and documents show, that they and the Ute Tribe are entirely distinct; they do not share historical origins, genealogies, bloodlines, or cultural practices. Claims that suggest a connection between the two are factually incorrect.
*1996 Repatriation Of Chief Black Hawk's Remains
The
human remains and associated objects were accessions by the
Museum of Latter-Day Saints Church History in 1919. At that
time, a
local physician attempted to confirm a report that
the human remains
were those of the Timpanogots' Chief Black
Hawk.
Research, Commentary, & Aknowledgements
Source Material for the Utah Black Hawk War.
UTAH BLACK HAWK WAR FACTS
Interesting facts about the Black Hawk War of Utah and the Timpanogos Indians from 1847 to 1873 from Phillip B Gottfredson's research journal.
Native American Protocols and Ethics
When Phillip Gottfredson was invited to live with a Shoshone family
protocols was one of the first things he was taught.
Aknowledgements;
The Black Hawk War Project began over 27 years ago, by Phillip and David Gottfredson. Their objective to bring an accurate and balanced account of the Mormon Black Hawk War in Utah.
National Museum of the American Indian
Phillip B Gottfredson began his journey to Understand Black Hawk's Mission of Peace.
Heart of Mayan Country
Phillip B Gottfredson's journeyed to San Pedro Guatamala in 2012 to research the historical, and spiritual connection between North and South American Indigenous peoples, and to witness the end of the world. "I'm still here!"
Truth In Education
True First Nation history needs to be included in Utah's school curriculum, but its not...why?
RUSSEL MEANS "For America to Live, Europe Must Die"
In Remembrance: Black Hawk War Chiefs & Veterans
List of "American Indian" battles in the war of exterminating American Indians.
Congressional Acts
Governing First Nations are a series of congressional acts designed to diminish tribal lands, or reservations:
Dawes Allotment Act 1887
Reorganization Act 1934
Termination Act 1953
Public Law 280 which was passed in 1953
LDS Church Indian placement program 1954
Self Determination Act 1970
American Indian Religious Freedom Act 1978
The Silent Victims of the Utah Black Hawk War
Recently, decedents whose ancestors led in some of the massacres in the Utah Black Hawk War have contacted me, and I feel it necessary to share their perspectives of the Black Hawk War.
James Leonard Pritchett, a great-grandson of Chief Tabby of the Timpanogos Nation of Utah.
Timpanogos Chief Tabby's name was not Tabby-To-Kwanah, or Tabiuna, and he was not Chief of the Uintah and Whiteriver Utes. All you need to do is ask Tabby's descendant- James Pritchett.
We Can Forgive But Never Forget
Don't assume that the Native peoples have since been given every opportunity to succeed, that "it's their own damn fault," as some say. Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
LDS Admit to Mountain Meadows Massacre
In an article that appeared in the church's Ensign magazine, church historian Richard E. Turley gives what is said to be the church's official account of the Massacre.
Phillip B Gottfredson Author & Historian
My Journey to Understand... Black Hawk's Mission of Peace This book offers more than history—it’s a powerful reflection on forgiveness, equality, and the sacred connection between humanity and the Earth. — that’s masterful storytelling. - James Timothy
Phillip B Gottfredson Biography
Phillip B Gottfredson is an independent historian, author, and retired Certified Conservator of Fine Art. He has lived among Native American tribes for over 20 years, a journey he details in his book, "My Journey to Understand Black Hawk's Mission of Peace."
End Settler Colonialism in Utah!
The Extermination Order imposed upon the Timpanogos Nation by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1849 needs to be rescinded. The ongoing implications of this history demands our urgent attention!
Nathan Chasing Horse is a person I won't forget
I can't recall there being a moment in my life when I was so spritually overwhelmed.
I spent a day talking to a Dine' medicine man
Well, we carried on a conversation non stop for six hours at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere.
Tribute to an old friend
Certain people come along at certain times and greatly influence the trajectory of our lives. (Unrelated to the Black Hawk War)
**The following video & Podcast collection has been assembled to help further our understanding of the Native American perspective of the Black Hawk War in Utah.
Radio Free Mormon Phillip B Gottfredson and Chief Executive of the Timpanmogos Natin Mary Murdock Meyer discuss the Mormon Black Hawk War in Utah.
Sunstone.org Park Join Lindsay as she sits down with Phillip B Gottfredson to delve into one of the most significant yet often overlooked chapters in Utah’s history—the Black Hawk War of 1865. In this gripping conversation, they explore the complex and brutal conflict that erupted between Mormon settlers and Native American tribes, led by the Timpanogos war Chief Antonga Black Hawk.
PODCAST Mary Murdock Meyer Chief Executive of the Timpanogos Nation, and Phillip B Gottfredson live podacst with host Jay Winter Nightwolf in a candid conversation about the Timpanogos Nation and the Black Hawk War of Utah.
The Black Hawk War: Utah's Forgotten Tragedy Researched and produced by Phillip B Gottfredson (video)
Bear River Massacre Memorial 155th Anniversary January 29, 2018 (video)
Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by Steven Newcomb (video)
*PETER GOTTFREDSON
Peter Gottfredson's Indian Depredations In Utah
Much of the material found on this website comes from 
Peter Gottfredson who lived with the Timpanogos during the Black Hawk War, and a friend of Timpanogos Chief Black Hawk. Peter is a great-grandfather of Phillip B Gottfredson.
Peter's Autobiography
AUGUST, 1871 PIOCHE BURNS In August, 1871 the town Pioche burned. It was caused by a lantern falling on a porch of a boarding house kept by two women. The wind was blowing and it got too much of a start before it was noticed. Nearly the whole town burned and there was no hay left in town.
Peter & his brother Hans In The Indian Camps
EXCERPTS from Peter Gottfredson his book Indian Depredations in Utah, which is one of the oldest firsthand accounts of the Black Hawk War in Utah. He describes the wars between Mormon settlers and the Indians of Utah that occured between the years 1847 to 1872.
