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961: 966: 146:). The two Mormon men responsible for the chief's death buried his body under a rock slide by shooting at the canyon wall overhead. Sanpitch's interactions with early Mormon settlers are chronicled in Gottfredson's 138:. A month later, while he and other jailed Indians were escaping, Sanpitch was shot and wounded. On April 18, 1866, he was found and killed in Birch Creek Canyon (in the San Pitch Mountains, between 134:
In March 1866, as a ploy suggested by Brigham Young to bring Black Hawk to the bargaining table, the elderly Chief Sanpitch was taken into custody and incarcerated in the jail in
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and Chief Sanpitch asked the Mormons to come to the Sanpete Valley to teach the band to farm, though this was met with little enthusiasm.
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Sanpitch is almost certainly not the same person as the Shoshone chief of the same name who was alive in 1870. The
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Sturtevant, William C. (1978). D'Azevedo, Warren L.; Sturtevant, William C. (eds.).
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Some sources indicate that he, or his grandfather of the same name, is the
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immigrants. The Sanpits are generally considered to be part of the
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from newly arrived Mormon settlers decimated their tribes,
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Index

Utah
United States
Fountain Green
Chief Walkara
Black Hawk
Black Hawk
Sanpits
Native Americans
Sanpete Valley
Mormon
Timpanogos or Utah Indians
Chief Walkara
Black Hawk
Black Hawk War in Utah
measles
Walkara
Manti
Fountain Green
Moroni
Shoshone
Utes
namesake
Sanpete County
Sanpete Valley
San Pitch Mountains
Sanpitch River
William Bright
Ute
tules
Smithsonian Institution

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