LEADER 03927nam 2200445 450 001 996214970703316 005 20230810000725.0 010 $a0-87421-359-2 010 $a0-585-20762-3 035 $a(CKB)111004365689094 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58781 035 $a(NjHacI)99111004365689094 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365689094 100 $a20230325d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSagwitch $eShoshone chieftain, Mormon elder, 1822-1887 /$fScott R. Christensen ; foreword by Brigham D. Madsen 210 1$aLogan, Utah :$cUtah State University, University Libraries,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a0-87421-270-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index. 327 $aIllustrations -- Foreword Brigham D. Madsen -- Preface -- Introduction: Newe, "The People" -- The Shoshone Orator -- Massacre at Bear River -- Shoshone Mormons -- The Corinne Scare -- Lemuel's Garden -- Epilogue: Sagwitch's Legacy -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aThe Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake, Bear River, Cache, and Bear Lake valleys-northern Utah. Sagwitch was born at a time when his people traded with the mountain men. In the late 1850s, wagons brought Mormon farmers to settle in Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers reduced Shoshone access to traditional village sites and food resources. Relationships with the Mormons were mostly good but often strained, and the Shoshone treatment of migrants, who now traveled north and south as well as west and east through the area, was increasingly opportunistic. It only took a few violent incidents for a zealous army colonel to seek severe punishment of the Northwestern Shoshone on a winter morning in 1863. The Bear River Massacre was among the bloodiest engagements of America's Indian wars. Hundreds of Shoshone, including Sagwitch's wife and two sons, died; he was wounded but escaped. The band was shattered; other chiefs dead.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 sessions, 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 the Shoshone's valleys.This, then, is also the story of the conversion of Sagwitch and his band to the Mormon Church. Though not without problems, that conversion was long lasting and thorough. Sagwitch and other Shoshone would demonstrate in important ways their new religious devotion. With the assistance of Mormon leaders, they established the Washakie community in northern Utah. Though efforts to secure a land base had an uneven history, they partly succeeded, and the story of these Shoshone's attempts at rural farming diverged significantly from what happened on government reservations. When Sagwitch died, his death went almost unnoticed outside of Washakie, but his children and grandchildren continued to be important voices among a people who, after experiencing near annihilation, survived in the new world into which Sagwitch led them. 606 $aShoshoni Indians$vBiography 606 $aLatter Day Saints$zUtah$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aShoshoni Indians 615 0$aLatter Day Saints$xHistory 676 $a979.20049745 700 $aChristensen$b Scott R.$0801372 702 $aMadsen$b Brigham D. 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214970703316 996 $aSagwitch$91802700 997 $aUNISA