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haste. It was two days later, on June 9th, the venerable old Chief Sowiette led fourteen chiefs in making his mark X on the paper. Chief Kanosh wrote his signature, and Chief Sanpitch did not sign. An Indian leader talking with Mrs. Itfdia Sorensen of Manti, following a meeting he had addressed at the annual U.B.I.C., held in the 2930's at Fort Duehesne, stressed that Brigham Young's acceptance of the Indians as a people with something to contribute was the real "basis for the good idll that most of the native people felt for the Mormon Colonizer, And Mr. Marlnus Jensen, in his History of Provo, makes a statement in which those who have read, the few facts that are available about the early Indian Statesman, Chief Sowiette, generally concurs "In rearing monunente to those who have rendered service to Utah, may we not sose day reaeaber the noble redman, Sowiette!11^ 1. Sonne, Conway B., World of ifoiirqrq, p, 146. 2. Sonne, p. 4g. Taken from Utah Historical Quarterly (Oct. 1933). P. 12?. 3. Whitney, Orson P., History of Utah. Footnote, p. 397. 4. Sonne, p. 5L, 5- Trenholm, Virginia Cole and Maurine Gorley, The Shoshones, Sentinels of the Rockies, p. 12?. 6. Christensen, Merlin C, A Driven People Settle The Far Weat, p. 168. ?. Ifhitney, p. 398. 8. Hhitney, p. 338. 9. Whitney, p. ?*5* 10. Larson, Gustive 0., Outline History of Utah and the Mormons, p. U*. 11. Whitney, p. 368. 12. Inventory of County Archives of Utah, Sanpete #20. 13. Sonne, p. 111. 1**. Sonne, p. 115. 15. Jensen, J. Marlnus, History of Provo, p. 60. 16. Gottfredson, Peter, Indian Depredations in Utah, p. 36- 17. Christensen, p. 18*-. 18. Boberts, B. H., Comprehensive History of the Church, p. lW. 19. Jensen, p. 60. -89- |
