Statements, letters, meeting minutes, and other documents related to Brigham Young’s Indian policy and Superintendency.

1. Brigham Young: “If you want to get rid of [the Indians], try to civilize them. It will get rid of them [kill them] much quicker than by fighting them.”
2. January 31, 1850: Militia orders to raise campaign against Utes at Fort Utah – “Exterminate” those who don’t sue for peace, “no violence to women & children…unless demanded by attendant circumstances”
3. February 1, 1850 to Feb 16: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Black Hawk assists militia; Utes fortify themselves with breastworks made from dismantled house; blood trails from wounded; survivors flee to Rock Canyon; Indians on Peteetneet creek “destroyed”; “Take no hostile prisoners… Let none escape but do the work up clean”  
4. February 10, 1850 to Feb 15: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Militia pursues Utes up Rock Canyon; “Slay them wherever they can be found. Let it be with them, peace or extermination;” Women & children taken prisoner; Ute men killed on ice of Utah Lake; more on Peteetneet creek killings
5. February 16, 1850 to Feb 28: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Peteetneet creek killings; Militia finds Utes in Rock Canyon, kills man; several found dead from wounds & exposure, including Old Elk; Ute woman falls from precipice while fleeing; Survivors escape on snowshoes; Militia estimates 24 Utes killed, 5 wounded, 10 more (including women & children) dead from exposure; 23 prisoners taken; “We merely wish to teach them to do right”
6. March 6, 1850: Orders given to Lorin Farr to organize Weber precinct military corps
7. March 11, 1850 to May 13: Court martial of Col. Scott; Deliverance of prisoners, horses to Grosephine & Black Hawk; Daniel H Wells’s letter to Ute leaders: “The Mormons Big Chief talks with the Great Spirit and he tells us what to do”
8. September 1, 1850 to September 19: Militia correspondence in response to Shoshones’ retaliation to Terikee’s death in Harrisville; Campbell killed, wheat & houses burned; “They make sport of what we try to say to them & say the land belongs to them”; A small band of “Utes” appear to be united with them; “We will still live on these lands if they want us to”
9. September 20, 1850 to September 30: Militia correspondence about pursuit of Shoshones, imprisonment of Native people from Weber, and court martial
10. October 9, 1850 to December 22: Militia correspondence about a campaign to Spanish Fork in pursuit of stolen horses — Indian person found dead in road, others flee in fear; Tooele and Salt Lake counties ordered to raise companies of mounted, juvenile, and infantry rifles
11. Winter of 1854-55: Little Soldier’s “Weber Ute” band of people were taken prisoner, distributed among Ogden settlers, and forced to work for them