Battle Creek massacre

Battle Creek Massacre
Here Ute Indian women and children tried to hide from the Mormon militia by taking cover in the icy stream downstream from Battle Creek Falls
Location	Pleasant Grove, Utah
Coordinates	40°21′48″N 111°42′02″W / 40.3633°N 111.7005°W / 40.3633; -111.7005
Date	March 5, 1849
Target	Timpanogos Native Americans
Weapons	Guns, stones
Deaths	4
Injured	several injuries from being struck by thrown stones
Perpetrators	35 Mormon miliatamen, ordered to carry out the attack by Brigham Young
Motive	Retaliation for reported cattle theft

The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah.^[1] It was the first violent engagement between the settlers who had begun coming to the area two years before, and was in response to reported cattle theft by the group. The attacked group (led by Kone Roman Nose) was outnumbered, outgunned, and had little defense against the militia that crept in and surrounded their camp before dawn.^[2][3] The massacre had been ordered by Brigham Young, the Utah territory governor and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The formation of the Mormon settlement of Utah Valley soon followed the attack at Battle Creek.^[4] One of the young survivors from the group of 17 children, women, and men who had been attacked grew up to be Antonga Black Hawk, a Timpanogos leader in the Black Hawk War.