One day the Shaman of the Piede tribe,

who had been banished to an unsurvivable Bantu-stan with his tribe, came to see my Great-grandfather at the rebuilt mill.

The US Army had burned the mill which John D. Lee built so thoroughly that the wheat grains in the basement were charred.
My grandparents excavated the mill, segmentally, and made
drawings of what they found on graph paper.

My Great Grandfather sent my Grandfather to run an errand and he hurried so he could get back and hear what Juab had come to stay. This is the Great Grandfather who lived with
the Panguitch Indians, his mother and little sib.

Juab and my Great-Grandfather were sitting on a well used bench. Juab told my Great-Grandfather to move over, he did,
he told him again until he was at the end of the bench.

He said he couldn't move over, he was out of bench. Juab said to move over anyway, so my Great-Grandfather sat on the ground.

Same with Indians. "Go to Indian Peaks, so we go to Indian
Peaks. Indian Peaks is a good place for Indians, good place for
Indians to starve."

The intent of Buchanan's Folly, which involved sending 1/5 to
1/3 of the Federal Army to replace the Territorial, popularly elected Governor with a colleague of Custer named Squaw Killer Harney, was to ethnically cleanse Utah of the Utes,
the Piutes (a Government assigned tribal name), by driving them into the Desert where the three sacred foods--Rabbit, Deer, and Pinion Nuts, did not grow.

Think us fanatics--but can you say that Custer and Harney were not fanatics? I don't think the Indians left their lands easily.
Now this is a bit of History I know less about, because the rapes,
the many massacres of small, tall grass villages were not fit for my ears.

I believe that they would have done the same to the people
if the Massacre had not occurred--and I wouldn't be posting
this. It would have been a long running battle, and the Indians would have kept their dignity and pride.

Because the trail used to pass the Meadows, and because of the war/invasion along the Eastern Trail, the Nauvoo Legion,
the Territorial Militia, left to fight the war along the West going canyons.

There was no unified Army until after the Civil War when the Uniform Code of Military Justice was written after the Civil War, it was used for more than a Century.

The trail bypassed the Meadows, because of the Wolves, Coyote,
and Wild Dogs that were going to have a tremendous lot of innocent fun as soon as the people left. There was a mass grave, and probably a Cairn. The current monument is a huge
Cairn with a plaque with the Arkansaw names listed. The people buried there are not all from the Arkansaw Parties.

Jacob Hamblin exhumed the bodies and reburied them, counting the bones and heads--he is said to have said that
there were more bodies there than the 120 Arkies. I remember
the count to have been 155 people. Who were those 35 people.
Most would find the idea of Federal Ownership, repugnant.
We have had