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Prior to the 1850s, the Paiute people lived relatively peacefully with the other Native American groups. These groups included the Navajo, Ute, and Hopi peoples. [6] Though there was the occasional tension and violent outbreaks between groups, the Paiute were mainly able to live in peace with other tribes and settlers due to their loose social structure.
The Circleville Massacre was an 1866 lynching of 27 Southern Paiute Native American men, women, and children by early Mormon settlers in Circleville, Utah. [1] [2] [3]
[1] [a] The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) involved with the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Nauvoo Legion) who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute Native Americans. [2]
— Tamra Borchardt-Slayton, Chairwoman for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Listening Session, May 29, 2020 [4] Borchardt-Slayton's support of MMIW/MMIP was sparked by her desire for justice for her aunt, Kris Jake-Moon and the other families and communities.
Ultimately, while Mormons were able to establish some alliances with Southern Paiute tribes, the refusal of tribes in the north of Utah disrupted one of Brigham Young's primary war strategies. [41] In particular, Young was taken by surprise by the Bannock and Shoshone attack on the Mormon missionary Fort Lemhi for the benefit of the US troops.
The Chemehuevi were originally a desert tribe among the Southern Paiute group. Post-contact, they lived primarily in the eastern Mojave Desert and later Cottonwood Island in Nevada and the Chemehuevi Valley along the Colorado River in California. They were a nomadic people living in small groups given the sparse resources available in the ...
Sources estimate that between 120 and 140 men, women and children were killed on September 11, 1857, at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail, in the Utah Territory. Some children of up to six years old were taken in by the Mormon families in Southern Utah, presumably because they had been judged to be too young to tell others ...
The Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony (Southern Paiute language: Nuvagantucimi, "people of "where snow sits" (i.e. Charleston Peak)) is a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiute Indians in Southern Nevada. [1]