Source Material For The Mormon Black Hawk War In Utah

For more than twenty years, Phillip B Gottfredson, a pioneering historian, dedicated his life to researching the Black Hawk War in Utah and exploring the Native Americans' perspectives on settler colonialism throughout the Americas. He describes his work as a spiritual journey to understand a remarkable leader, Timpanogos Chief Black Hawk, and his Mission of Peace. See Phillip B Gottfredson's Biography

CONSULTANTS: 2003-2024 Historian Will Bagley; University of Utah Prof. Daniel McCool Ph.D.; University of Utah Prof. Dr. Floyd O'Neil Ph.D.; Historian Robert Carter; Mary Murdock Meyer Chief Executive of the Timpanogos Nation; National Forest Service Archeologist Charmian Thompson; Vanita Taveapont Director of Indian Language Program Ute Tribe; Loya Arrum Ute Tribe, Shane Armstrong, Forrest Cuch Utah State Division of Indian Affairs, Filmmaker Larry Cesspooch Ute Tribe of the Uintah Ouray Reservation.

RESOURCES: The United States Department of the Interior; Timpanogos Nation; Commission of Indian Affairs Annual Report 1865, O.H. Irish; Powell; The Bureau of Indian Affairs; The Utah State Government Archives; University of Utah Special Collections images by written permission; Brigham Young University Special Collections; Salt Lake City Library; Mt. Pleasant Library; Cedar City Library Special Collections; Timpanogos Nation Uintah Valley Reservation; Navajo Nation; Northern Shoshone Nation; Private Journals Mormon Pioneers; Marva Loy Egget Spring Lake, Utah; Author Norma Vance a direct descendant of David Monsen Paiute and the only known survivor of the Circleville Massacre; Ute Tribe of the Uinta Ouray Reservation - Uintah Valley Reservation;

INTERVIEWS FROM 1989 TO PRESENT: Personal Interviews of numerous descendants of early Utah Pioneers, and oral histories while living with members of various Native American Tribes throughout North and South America; Western Shoshone, Colorado Utes, Grandriver Ute, Uncompahgre Ute, Yampa Ute, Moache Ute, Wiminuche Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, and Navajo Dine'. Additional interviews with Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo, Apache, Shoshone, Arapaho, Lakota, Silets, Makah, Southern Paiute, Northern Paiute, Yrok, Anishinaabe, Cherokee, Choctaw, Inca, founding members of A.I.M., and Mayan of San Pedro Guatemala Jörge Stienwender, a keeper of the sacred Myan Calenders. Living descendants of Timpanogos Chiefs Wakara, Sowiette, Arapeen, Sanpitch, Ammon, Tabby, and Grospeen (all brothers), and Black Hawk (son of Sanpitch), Chief Executive Mary Murdock Meyer and members of the Timpanogos Nation Uintah Valley Reservation;

RESEARCH MATERIAL: Indian Depredations in Utah by Peter Gottfredson; Utah's Black Hawk War John Alton Peterson; American Indian Prophecies Kurt Kaltreider, Ph.D.; 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; Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz; 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 Steel by Jared Diamond; Jacob Hamblin His Life in His Own Words; Massacre at Bear River by Rod Miller; Lore and Reminiscences of Participants, Carlton Culmsee; Schoolcraft; Bancroft; Founding of Fort Utah by Robert Carter; Shoshone Frontier Bear River by Brigham Madsen; Thunder Over the OCHOCO by Gayle ONTKO (5 vol. set); So Rugged and Mountainous by Will Bagley; The Shoshone Sentinels of the Rockies Virginia Cole Trenholm and Maurine Carley; The Book of Destiny Carlos Barrios- Mayan; Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock; Walkara Hawk of the Mountains Paul Baily; Of Worthier Blood by Parker M. Nielson; Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd; Claws of the Hawk Paul Baily ; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places by Andrew Gulliford; History of Salt Lake City. Tullidge's Histories, vol 1; Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765 by author Steven G. Baker; Dominguez Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado Utah Arizona and New Mexico in 1776 by Ted J. Warner; Standing Rock by Pamela Eakins; American Indian Myths and Legends by Erdoes and Ortez; The Storytelling Stone by Susan Feldmann; History of Payson by Norma Vance; The Dominguez - Escalante Journal Fray Angelico translation; Chief Pocatello "The White Plume" by Brigham D. Madsen; Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne; Spanish Exploration In The Southwest 1542-1706 by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Ph.D.; North American Indians by Artist George Catlin Vol. 3.; Trail Across the Great Basin by James H. Simpson 1859; Antiquities of the Indians North and South America Peter Parley (1833);

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Timpanogos Black Hawk's Mission of Peace by author and historian Phillip B Gottfredson. or buy direct the Author's Signed Edition. Indian Depredations in Utah by Peter Gottfredson Published in 1919, it is irsthand account of the Black Hawk War in Utah! Videos on Native American History: Native American History Native American Culture Native American Genocide Books on Native American History: Browse Native American History Books  1491 New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus Charles C. Mann; American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty by George E. Tinker; A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Amy S. Greenberg; American Indian Prophecies by Kurt Kaltrader PhD.; American Settler Colonialism: A History 2013th Edition by W. Hixson (Author) American Indian Myths and Legends; Brigham Young and the Expansion of Mormon Faith Thomas G. Alexander; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown; Book Of The Hopi by Frank Waters; Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt; CASTE The Origins of Our Discontents author Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz; Chief Pocatello "The White Plume" by Brigham D. Madsen; Dominguez Escalante Journal Their Expedition Through Colorado Utah Arizona and New Mexico in 1776 by Ted J. Warner; Dr. Thomas Murphy Critiques Book of Mormon DNA; Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne; Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869 by Eugene E. Campbell Founding of Fort Utah by D. Robert Carter; Guns Germs Steel by Jared Diamond; North American Indians by Artist George Catlin History of Utah’s American Indians Edited by Forest Cuch; History of Salt Lake City. Tullidge's Histories, vol 1; Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen; I Will Fight No More Forever Chief Joseph; Jacob Hamblin His Life in His Own Words; Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765 by author Steven G. Baker; Lore and Reminiscences of Participants Carlton Culmsee; Life Among The Apaches by John C. Cremony 1850; Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley; Massacre at Bear River by Rod Miller; Of Worthier Blood by Parker M. Nielson; (N/A)

Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) Second Edition by Amy S. Greenberg (Author) Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation (Harvard Historical Studies) Pagans in the Promised Land." by Steven Newcomb; Claws of the Hawk by Paul Baily Sacred Objects and Sacred Places by Andrew Gulliford; Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd; Red Twilight by Val FitzPatrick; 1491 Charles C. Mann; Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnograph Event (Writing Past Imperialism) by Patrick Wolfe; Standing Rock by Pamela Eakins; Shoshone Frontier Bear River by Brigham Madsen; Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin So Rugged and Mountainous by Will Bagley; The Storytelling Stone by Susan Feldmann; The Book of Destiny Carlos Barrios (Mayan); The Dominguez - Escalante Journal Fray Angelico translation; The manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South America. By the author of Peter Parley's tales. 1844 The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez'; Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft; The Works Of The Native Races. 1882; Hubert Howe Bancroft; Thunder Over the OCHOCO by Gayle ONTKO (Rare 5 vol. set); The shoshonies Sentinels of the Rockies by Virginia Cole Trenholm and Maurine Carley; The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Richard Griswold del Castillo; The Utes Must Go by Peter R. Decker; The Sacred Pipe by Joseph Epes Brown; The Paiutes of Pyramid Lake by Ruth Herman; Utah's Black Hawk War John Alton Peterson; On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, 1844-1889 Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Claudio Saunt; Wisdom of the Elders by David Suzuki; Writings of John D. Lee by Samuel Nyal Henrie; Walkara Hawk of the Mountains by Paul Baily;

See Phillip B Gottfredson's Biography