The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near modern Pleasant Grove, Utah. Four were killed. It was the
Here Timpanogos Native women and children tried to hide from the Mormon militia by taking cover in the icy stream downstream from Battle Creek Falls
Pleasant Grove City Park Monument "in commemoration of Utah's first Indian battle ..."
"The first battle between Indians and the Utah Pioneers occurred ... between the Deseret Militia and the Indians ..."
Pleasant Grove Kiwanis Park Monument erected at the site stating, "... in memory of the first armed engagement between the Mormon Pioneers and the Native Americans that inhabited Utah Valley ..."
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 Sanp
Battle Creek massacre
…the young survivors from the group of 17 children, women, and men who had been attacked grew up to be Antonga Black Hawk, a Timpanogos leader in the Black Hawk War (1865–1872). Around February 1849, Dimick B. Huntington spoke with Timpanogo leader Little Chief about some of the settlers' missing cattle. Little Chief said that…
A Ute warrior and his bride in 1874, photograph by John K. Hillers.
A statue of a Native American with pioneer settlers at Pioneer Heritage Gardens in Manti, Utah.