"The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake Valley, Bear River, Cache Valley, and Bear Lake - northern Utah. Sagwitch was born in this core fur trapping region at a time when his people had close associations with the mountain men. Sagwitch came to manhood and a leadership position as wagon trains began crossing his people's territory. Wagons later brought Mormon settlers, who by the late 1850s were occupying Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers reduced Shoshone access to traditional village sites and food resources. It only took a few violent incidents for a gung-ho army colonel to seek severe punishment of the Northwestern Shoshone on an early winter morning in 1863. The Bear River Massacre was among the most bloody engagements of America's Indian wars. Hundreds of Shoshone, including Sagwitch's wife and two stepsons, died; he was wounded but escaped."--BOOK JACKET. "The following years were very hard for the survivors. The federal government negotiated a treaty with them but failed to get Sagwitch's signature when, enroute to the meeting, he was arrested and then wounded by a white assassin. With the world around him changed, Sagwitch sought accommodation with the most immediate threat to his people's traditional way of survival - the Mormons occupying Shoshone homelands. This, then, is also the story of the conversion of Sagwitch and his band to the Mormon Church. Though not without conflicts and problems, that conversion was long lasting and thorough. Sagwitch and other Northwestern Shoshone would demonstrate in important ways their new religious devotion."--BOOK JACKET.

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zlib/History/American Studies/Scott R. Christensen/Sagwitch: Shoshone chieftain, Mormon elder, 1822-1887_1119037.epub

Christensen, Scott

University Press of Colorado

United States, United States of America

December 1999

1, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-245) and index.

Sagwitch, "the Speaker," a leader of the Northwestern Shoshone, grew up as European Americans began arriving in his homeland west of the Rocky Mountains. He saw a trickle of outsiders passing through the heart of his people's territory become a steady stream of emigrants and settlers. The Shoshone found it more difficult to support themselves from traditional resources and tried to replace them from what the newcomers brought. Resulting conflict led to the slaughter of hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone-Sagwitch's relatives-at the Bear River Massacre. Though wounded, Sagwitch lived to lead the desperate survivors. Believing their best hope lay in joining the people who occupied their homeland, Sagwitch and his band were baptized as Mormons. That enduring relationship led to the founding of the Washakie Indian colony in northern Utah and to a legacy among his descendants of community and religious activism.

Sagwitch, "the Speaker," was a leader of the Shoshone people. Following the Bear River Massacre he lead the survivors. He and his band later were baptized as members of the Mormon church and settled the Washakie Indian colony in northern Utah

In the early autumn of 1822, Pin-in-netse, Woo-roats-rats-in-gwipe, and their extended family made a temporary camp at one of their people's traditional campsites along the lower Bear River in Box Elder Valley.

The Shoshone orator
Massacre at Bear River
Shoshone Mormon
The Corinne scare
Lemuel's garden
Epilogue.

2011-08-31