Phillip B Gottfredson at the Hutchings Museum Lehi, Utah
Phillip is the only non-Native historian known to have spent more than two decades living among Native American communities in Utah, learning directly from Tribal members rather than studying them from a distance. While many historical accounts of the Utah Black Hawk War were written without meaningful consultation with Indigenous people, Gottfredson immersed himself in Native communities, gaining firsthand knowledge of their histories, cultures, and traditional lifeways.