Mormon war on Native Americans (Black Hawk War between Natives and Mormons)
Channel: Thomas Oklahoma
Date: 2014-03-01

Chief Black Hawk, Utah's famous Ute Indian leader for just seven months led counter attacks against Mormon intrusion, and three years campaigning for a peaceful end to the war. While the Black Hawk War in Utah was not a single event, there were some 150 bloody confrontations between Mormon settlers and North American Indian peoples over a 21 year period. Utah's ancient and vibrant Indian culture numbered in the tens of thousands, at minimum 50,000 or more. It is astonishing to find that when Mormon settlers arrived in Utah territory during the years of 1847 thru 1870, Native Indian population steadily declined by 90 percent from disease, starvation, and violence! It is disturbing the victors accounts brush by this tragedy. That Natives to the land were subjected to deceit, dishonesty, torture, mass butchery, rape, and death, death to others, to animals, plants, to the waters, and the land. Indigenous men, women, and children were left to wonder alone in a land they believed belonged to them for eternity. A people who in their final agony cried out "we are human too." - See more at: http://blackhawkproductions.com/#sthash.DNZvXsgK.dpuf

The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, from 1865 to 1872, is the name of the estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements between Mormons and other settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other parts of central and southern Utah, and members of 16 Ute, Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute war chief, Antonga Black Hawk. The conflict resulted in the abandonment of some settlements and postponed Mormon expansion in the region.
The years 1865 to 1867 were by far the most intense of the conflict, though intermittent conflict occurred until around 200 federal troops intervened in 1872. 

John A. Peterson describes his point of view of the time:
Latter-day Saints considered themselves in a state of open warfare. They built scores of forts [such as Willden Fort] and deserted dozens of settlements while hundreds of Mormon militiamen chased their illusive [sic] adversaries through the wilderness with little success. Requests for a federal troops went unheeded for eight years. Unable to distinguish "guilty" from "friendly" tribesmen, frustrated Mormons at times indiscriminately killed Indians, including women and children.