Timpanogos
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The Timpanogos are a tribe of Ute Native Americans who inhabited a large part of central Utah, in particular the area from Utah Lake east to the Uinta Mountains and south into present-day Sanpete Coun
Mt. Timpanogos, named for the tribe
Fort Utah in 1850
The Great Heart of Timpanogos, inside Timpanogos Cave, a cave inside Mount Timpanogos
Battle Creek massacre
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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
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…through their clan. Parley P. Pratt explored the Utah Valley and Utah Lake. The first battle between settlers and Indians, known by the Americans as the Battle Creek massacre, occurred in early March 1849 at present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah. A company of 40 Mormon men went to the Utah Valley to persuade the Timpanogos to…
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 ..."