The Timpanogos were first discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Revera in 1765, and later Dominguez and Escalante in 1776. and highlights a war that has been overlooked and misunderstood for far too long..
Join the author as he shares his extraordinary spiritual Journey into the Native America culture.
In collaboration with tribal leaders, he shares the Timpanogos version of the story, writing from the vantage point of the native peoples of Utah - a reference point that has been deliberately ignored.
His account brings a much-needed perspective to a war that has historically been examined from the one-sided perspective of the Mormons.
Phillip B Gottfredson, who has spent decades living among First Nations people seeking to Understand Native American culture, provides a detailed synopsis of the Black Hawk War of Utah that decimated the Timpanogos Nation from 1849 and 1873.
Timpanogos leader Black Hawk witnessed the worst kind of man\'s inhumanity to man, and himself dying from a gunshot wound traveled a hundred and eighty miles on horseback to make Peace with the white man, and apologizes for the pain and suffering he caused them, asking them to do the same and end the bloodshed.
Some seventy thousand Timpanogos Indians - the aboriginal people of Utah - died from violence, starvation, and disease after Mormon colonists stole their land and destroyed their culture over a twenty-one-year timeframe, but few people know anything about them, who they are, or what they believed in.
They describe in their journals having met "the bearded ones" who spoke Shoshone.
The Timpanogos were first discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Revera in 1765, and later Dominguez and Escalante in 1776
