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Show INTERVIEW: Jimmy Pete and Alva Matheson Page 1 P: He was going to hold Indians back, see? They had a settler here, a white man settler would come ahead of ' um and they'd talk to the Indians and talk to them and they was going to fight, you know. My father was the head of ' um and he'd hold them back. Let them stay back to the mountains around here, down Iron Springs, down Tonoip, up here Parowan Canyon. When you come through all the lost Indians here, you see? He's one of the most chief one they had here. M: So he made the Indians move back and let the white people come. P: Let come, let them stay, let them come through. C: Not fight? P: Not fight. I guess he calling them brothers and all them, let them come through, let them stay, let them have it. The other people, the other chiefs said, ' No, want fight.' My father says, ' No." M: I know, I was--. P: Keep on going down through there, you see, as far as it went there. M: I've heard a lot of the old people say that Chief John was a good old Indian. P: That's the same one, that's--. M: The same one. As I understand it, he was the main chief, that is, chief over all the tribes and then each different |
