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Show 84 INDIAN DEPEEDATIONS CHIEF WALKER DIED AT MEADOW CREEK, MILLARD COUNTY 1855, January 29th. Walker, the Utah Chief, who had so long been a terror to the whites, died at Meadow Creek, in Millard County, and was succeed-ed by his brother Arapeen. Walker prior to his death, became convinced that the " Mormons " were his friends, and among his final words was an injunc-tion to his tribe to live at peace with the settlers and not molest them. According to the cruel custom then in vogue among the savages, an Indian boy and girl and thir-teen horses were buried alive with Walker, being secured near the corpse of the Chief at the bottom of a deep pit or walled enclosure, and left to suffer until death brought relief, It was said that two In-dians passed by the place, and the boy begged to be let out, but they passed on. The boy said that Wal-ker was beginning to stink. THE ELK MOUNTAIN MISSION, AND ABANDON-MENT. An Indian Mission known in the history of the Church as the Elk Mountain Mission was established for the purpose of educating a tribe of Indians who occupied the region of country in south- eastern Utah in the vicinity of the Elk Mountains ( now the La Salle Mountains). Their main rendezvous was in a little Valley on the Grand River where the settlement of Moab is now situated. Those who went on this mis-sion were called at a general Conference of the Church held in Great Salt Lake City in April, 1855. |