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Show 74 Nuwuvi: A Southern Paiute History river were small cultivated patches of from two to ten acres.1'' This was indeed an accomplishment considering the pressures the Nuwuvi had been under from emigrants, traders, and slavers. In 1855 a sad reminder of slavery occurred. Wakara, who had been the greatest of the slave raiders, Indian or white, died early in 1855. His death probably was followed by rejoicing among many of the Nuwuvi. His funeral was a last symbol of the viciousness of slavery. Two Nuwuvi women and two Nuwuvi children, all prisoners, were killed at the funeral along with fifteen horses.1' Soon after the initial encounter with the Mormon missionaries, many of the Nuwuvi began to have second thoughts about the whites settling among them. Sanpitch, a Ute headman, visited the Santa Clara in December of 1854 and urged the Nuwuvi to reject the missionaries and to only allow them to build and live there after payment of oxen and horses.18 Tutsegavit, after consideration, decided to allow the missionaries to stay. Toquer began to have some of the same feelings. He told the Mormons that the land was his and that they must pay him for it with oxen. The situation almost worsened when John D. Lee told the Nuwuvi they had a large debt to pay for stealing. The Nuwuvi decided to fight along side the Utes rather than pay the penalty. Lee called out an armed band of settlers, but finally settled matters by paying Toquer with some clothing.19 While these occasional expressions of hostility occurred, the Mormons were trying to establish friendly relations on a firmer footing. A large part of their efforts were directed toward convincing the Indians that Mormons were different from other Americans. The reason was partly practical. They knew of the resentment the Nuwuvi had toward the annual emigrant trains who passed through their lands. The Mormons' own resentment against the "gentiles" who had forced them to leave the United States was probably the more important reason. Thomas Brown stated that it would have been difficult to explain to the Nuwuvi why "U.S. nincompoops" often had more power to do them good than the Mormons. Consequently, the missionaries had to give them constant attention to win their affections. The most important asset to the missionaries was the Nuwuvi memory of "the oft repeated cruelties, shootings, and killings among them by the American emigrants." Brown felt that |