Walkara's warriors, after returning from the attack upon the Shoshone on Yellow Creek, forced the women and children prisoners to "dance with the scalps of their kindred"

Copied from the History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah, by W.H. Lever, 1898. Pg 15-16.

About July 1st, of this year [1850], Chief Walker and a band of 700 warriors of the Sanpitch Indians, with their squaws and pappooses, returned [to Sanpete County] from a successful foraging expedition against the Shoshones and camped in a semi-circle around the colonists, remaining during the year. They proudly exhibited their trophies of war, held frequent scalp dances and forced the squaws and children prisoners to dance with the scalps of their kindred attached to poles, being significant of humbleness. While thus being amused, Chief Walker and his leading men would tantalize the colonists and threaten to treat them in a similar manner. These fiendish orgies would be kept up all night long, while the small colony of white people slept not knowing but that they would never awaken.

Documenting the Weber Utes

Walkara’s warriors, after returning from the attack upon the Shoshone on Yellow Creek, forced the women and children prisoners to “dance with the scalps of their kindred”

A collection of documents, excerpts, and photographs relevant to the so-called Weber Ute people of Northern Utah. Not a complete history — research aid only.