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Antonga, or Black Hawk (born c. 1830; died September 26, 1870), was a nineteenth-century war chief of the Timpanogos tribe in what is the present-day state of Utah.He led the Timpanogos against Mormon settlers and gained alliances with Paiute and Navajo bands in the territory against them during what became known as the Black Hawk War in Utah (1865–1872).
The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, is the name of the estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements taking place from 1865 to 1872, primarily between Mormon settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other parts of central and southern Utah, and members of 16 Ute, Southern Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute war chief, Antonga Black Hawk. [1]
He was the brother of famed Chief Walkara and the father of Black Hawk, [2] for whom the Black Hawk War in Utah (1865–72) is named. In 1850, after measles from newly arrived Mormon settlers decimated their tribes, Walkara and Chief Sanpitch asked the Mormons to come to the Sanpete Valley to teach the band to farm, [ 3 ] though this was met ...
Black Hawk War (1865–1872) White River War (1879) Pinhook Draw fight (15-16 June 1881) [3] Beaver Creek Massacre (June 19, 1885) – Cases of cattle-rustling by the Utes on white cattlemen caused tensions that eventually led to a skirmish between the two parties in Beaver Creek. In the gunfight that ensued, cowboys killed six Mountain Ute ...
Chief Walkara, also known as Chief Walker, a noted mid-19th-century chief [24] [better source needed] led his people against Mormon settlers in the Walker War. The war included several armed conflicts with settlers and Mormon militiamen. Chief Black Hawk, leader of the Black Hawk War (1865–1872), was a son of San-Pitch. [24] [better source ...
Black Hawk, son of Chief San-Pitch and noted War leader during the Utah Black Hawk War (1865–72). Chipeta, Ouray's wife and Ute delegate to negotiations with federal government; R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flutist; Ouray, leader of the Uncompahgre band of the Ute tribe; Polk, Ute-Paiute chief; Posey, Ute-Paiute chief
The Seuvarits were among the Ute bands that were involved in the Black Hawk War. [1] The Seuvarits and other Ute bands were eventually relocated onto reservations by the United States government after their population severely declined after exposure to disease and war during the latter half of the 19th century. [2] [3]
Years later, a mountain man named Joshua Terry, who had married a Native American woman, told writer and Pleasant Grove native Howard R. Driggs that the Ute boy that was captured grew up to become Ute war chief Antonga Black Hawk. Following the Black Hawk War, Black Hawk confided in Terry that he could never understand why the white men had ...