dead death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name
dead 29 september 1879 meeker , colorado euclid , ohio 12 july 1817 meeker.jpg nathan meeker
 nathanial c. meeker
nathan meeker

nathanial c. meeker -lrb- july 12 , 1817 -- september 30 , 1879 -rrb- was a 19th-century united states -lrb- us -rrb- journalist , homesteading entrepreneur , and indian agent for the federal government .
he is noted for his founding in 1870 of the union colony , a cooperative agricultural colony in present-day greeley , colorado .
in 1878 he was appointed us agent at the white river indian agency in western colorado .
the next year , he was killed by ute warriors in what became known as the meeker massacre , part of the ute war .
his wife and adult daughter were taken captive for about three weeks .
in 1880 the us congress passed punitive legislation to remove the ute from colorado to reservations in present-day utah , and take away some land formerly guaranteed them .
