Utah
Time for Truth: Hope, Reality and Bad Hot Takes from Special Elections
With South Carolina CD5 and Georgia CD6 in the books, many Democratic party members and commenters and pundits are advancing their own hot takes of […]
Utah
The Utah Indian Wars of 1866
While Mormon settlement of Utah began in 1847, American Indians had inhabited the region for thousands of years. The Mormon settlements displaced and disrupted the […]
Utah’s Black Hawk War
During 1865 to 1867, American and Mormon settlers in Utah were engaged in a war with a small group of Ute, Paiute, and Navajo warriors […]
The Great Basin Tribes
The Great Basin includes the high desert regions between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. It is bounded on the north by the Columbia […]
Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part V (Termination Era, 1954-1986)
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Don’t worry if you missed previous installments. This diary will serve as a stand-alone and as […]
Ancient America: Hovenweep
In 1854 a Mormon expedition under the leadership of W. D. Huntington reported finding some ancient ruins in southeast Utah. Twenty years later, the photographer […]
Ancient America: Utah
( – promoted by navajo) Ten thousand years ago, Native American people in what is now Utah had a lifeway that was centered around a […]
Utah’s Black Hawk War
( – promoted by navajo) During 1865 to 1867, American and Mormon settlers in Utah were engaged in a war with a small group of […]
Utah’s Walker War
( – promoted by navajo) The Walker War was a conflict between the Mormon settlers in Utah and Utah’s aboriginal peoples, the Ute. The leader […]
Mormons and Indians in Early Utah
( – promoted by navajo) In 1847, the Mormons entered what is now Utah and began to build their Kingdom of God on Earth. There […]