Nephi massacre information

Nephi Massacre^[1]
Nephi Massacre
Part of Wakara's War
Location	Nephi, Utah
Coordinates	39°42′31″N 111°50′10″W / 39.7085°N 111.8361°W
Date	2 Oct 1853
Target	Group of Goshute Western Shoshone people
Attack type	Mass execution
Weapons	Guns, blunt weapons
Deaths	7 males, ages 10–35
Perpetrators	Members of the LDS Church
Motive	Paranoia towards Native American people during Wakara's War

The Nephi massacre was an 1853 incident when a group of Mormons invited a group of peace-seeking Goshute Native American men, woman (singular), and children into their fort in Nephi, Utah and executed the seven men and took the remaining three as prisoners.^[4]^{: 138—139} The white settlers were acting in retaliation for the recent deaths of four Mormons in the Fountain Green massacre done by a different nation of Native American called Ute.^[3]^[2]^[5] The settlers were from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) commonly called Mormons.^[4]^{: 138—139}

The murder of the Goshute men occurred in the midst of a series of skirmishes dubbed Wakara's War between Native Americans and Mormons in the present-day Utah region.^[3] LDS settlers at Salt Creek Fort in present-day Nephi, Utah invited the group of people inside the fort, took them prisoner, shot them in the back of the head,^[3]^[4]^: 158 and buried them in a mass grave.^[7] One woman and two children from the group were taken prisoner.^[8]

^ Stettler, Jeremiah (September 15, 2006). "Skeletons found in Nephi may reveal details of 1853 massacre". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 7, 2023. [The archaeologist] has found nothing to change the history of the Nephi massacre. Rather, he has evidence to suggest that seven men, ages 16 to 25, were killed that day and thrown in a mass grave.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Nephi Indian grave yields details of 1853 killings". Deseret News. LDS Church. Associated Press. June 8, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Rood, Ronald (2012). "Massacre in Nephi: Archaeology of a Mass Grave". The Beehive Archive. Salt Lake City: Utah Humanities. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rood, Ronald J. (2017). "The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from Nephi, Utah and One Event of the Walker War, Utah Territory. Excavations at 42JB1470, Nephi, Utah". In Kiarszys, Grzegorz; Zalewska, Anna Izabella (eds.). Materiality of Troubled Pasts: Archaeologies of Conflicts and Wars. Szczecin, Poland: University of Szczecin. ISBN 978-83-943365-3-0 – via ResearchGate.
^ ^a ^b Carter, D. Robert (February 18, 2006). "Frontier violence traumatized both colonists and Indians". Daily Herald. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
^ Wimmer, Ryan (December 13, 2010). The Walker War Reconsidered (Master of History thesis). Brigham Young University.
^ ^[4]^{: 137–138}^[6]^: 145^[5]
^ Cite error: The named reference Skeletal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Skeletons-1] Stettler, Jeremiah (September 15, 2006). "Skeletons found in Nephi may reveal details of 1853 massacre". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 7, 2023. [The archaeologist] has found nothing to change the history of the Nephi massacre. Rather, he has evidence to suggest that seven men, ages 16 to 25, were killed that day and thrown in a mass grave.

[Deseret-2] "Nephi Indian grave yields details of 1853 killings". Deseret News. LDS Church. Associated Press. June 8, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2023.

[Beehive-3] Rood, Ronald (2012). "Massacre in Nephi: Archaeology of a Mass Grave". The Beehive Archive. Salt Lake City: Utah Humanities. Retrieved May 7, 2023.

[Archaeology-4] Rood, Ronald J. (2017). "The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from Nephi, Utah and One Event of the Walker War, Utah Territory. Excavations at 42JB1470, Nephi, Utah". In Kiarszys, Grzegorz; Zalewska, Anna Izabella (eds.). Materiality of Troubled Pasts: Archaeologies of Conflicts and Wars. Szczecin, Poland: University of Szczecin. ISBN 978-83-943365-3-0 – via ResearchGate.

[Traumatized-5] Carter, D. Robert (February 18, 2006). "Frontier violence traumatized both colonists and Indians". Daily Herald. Retrieved May 2, 2023.

[BYU-6] Wimmer, Ryan (December 13, 2010). The Walker War Reconsidered (Master of History thesis). Brigham Young University.

[7] [4]^{: 137–138}^[6]^: 145^[5]

[Skeletal-8] Cite error: The named reference Skeletal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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