| Show go Then the ground One by taking between those who are brave like warriors come Walker one the stick the two drawing chiefs he line added on Let warriors and who would fight across the line to Sowiette Indians humiliated and and crossed defeated the line once more leaving So at least three times Sowiette stood in defense of the white settlers even though according to Indian Agent Henry Day he bore no love for the Mormon people These are recorded times There may have been other instances that have not been written down where Sowiette used his influence to prevent the Indians from destroying the white settlements The Indian practice of capturing and selling children from weaker tribes provedhard custom for the settlers to deal with At first Brigham Young allowed the Mormon settlers to trade for the children underregulation that they would be cared for and educated on an apprenticeship basis Historian Orson Whitney recorded that the settlers in Salt Lake Valley were not much molested by the red men although several Indian children were ransomed the first winter by the settlers at the fort to save them from being shot to death or tortured by their merciless With the enforcement of Indian slave trade and this cut off Walkara led his captors the law forbidding means of capital gain braves the in raids against settlers in what has been called the Walker War In 1865 Indian Agent Irish invited Brigham Young and some of the other leaders of the territory to meet in Spanish Fork with the Chiefs of the Indian Nation to proposetreaty that would move the Indians toreservation in the Uintah Basin Although they did not want to leave the land of their fathers Brigham Young advised the Indians to sign deliberation venerable After several days Chief Sowiette now aged and steeped in wisdom led fourteen chiefs in placing his mark on the treaty All signed except Sanpitch who left to join forces with Blackhawk who even as the treaty was being signed was raiding and burning white settlements and killing the settlers 84 |
