Antonga Black Hawk was a Ute Indian born in Spring Lake, Utah around 1830. Dying from a gunshot wound he received during battle three or four years before at Gravelly Fort, Utah, couragous Black Hawk by his own preference made peace with the "pale-faces" before he died with honor in 1869-70. He traveled hundreds of miles, visiting every village from Cedar City to Payson in Utah, and pleaded with the whites to forgive him for the sufferings he and his people had caused them. His ambition was that they could coexist in peace. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Spring Lake is a census-designated place located in Utah County, Utah. ... Cedar City is a city located in Iron County, Utah, a 3½ hour drive south on Interstate 15 from Salt Lake City. ... Payson is a city located in Utah County, Utah. ... State nickname: Beehive State Other U.S. States Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. ...

The Black Hawk War in Utah began in 1865 and ended in 1872.

It was a triangle between the Federal Government seeking to destroy the Mormons, the Mormons fighting for control over the government in a place the whites called "Zion", and the Native Indians were caught in the middle fighting to reconcile both sides for survival and their ancestral land. The government played the Indian against the Mormons, while the Mormons played the Indian against the government. In the end, church and government join hands and removed the Indian from his ancestral land. The term Mormon is a colloquial name referring to Latter Day Saints, derived in the 1830s from the Book of Mormon, one of their books of scripture, whose compiler was called the prophet Mormon. ...

Historian John Alton Peterson describes Chief Black Hawk as having, "remarkable vision and capacity. Given the circumstances under which he operated, he put together an imposing war machine and masterminded a sophisticated strategy that suggest he had a keen grasp of the economic, political, and geographic contexts in which he operated. Comparable to Cochise, Sitting Bull and Geronimo, Black Hawk fostered an extraordinary pan-regional movement that enabled him to operate in an enormous section of country and establish a three-front war. Black Hawk worked to establish a barrier to white expansion and actually succeeded in collapsing the line of Mormon settlement, causing scores of villages in over a half dozen counties to be abandoned. For almost a decade the tide of white expansion in Utah came to a dead stop and in most of the territory actually receded. Like other defenders of Indian rights, though, Black Hawk found he could not hold his position, and his efforts eventually crumbled." Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = hardwood, also Cheis) (c. ... Sitting Bull Sitting Bull (Sioux: Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka orTa-Tanka I-Yotank, born Hunkesni, Slow), (c. ... Geronimo Geronimo (Chiricahua Goyaałé One Who Yawns; often spelled Goyathlay in English), (June 16, 1829–February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long warred against the encroachment of settlers of European descent on tribal lands. ...