Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sanpitch was a leader of the Sanpits tribe of American Indians who lived what is now Sanpete County, Utah before and during settlement by Mormon immigrants. He is the father of Black Hawk, for whom the Black Hawk War in Utah (1865–1872) is named. In 1850, after measles from newly arrived Mormon settlers decimated their tribes, Walkara and Chief Sanpitch asked the Mormons to come to the Sanpete Valley teach the band to farm, though this was met with little enthusiasm.. }
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- Sanpitch_(Ute_chief) comment "Sanpitch was a leader of the Sanpits tribe of American Indians who lived what is now Sanpete County, Utah before and during settlement by Mormon immigrants. He is the father of Black Hawk, for whom the Black Hawk War in Utah (1865–1872) is named. In 1850, after measles from newly arrived Mormon settlers decimated their tribes, Walkara and Chief Sanpitch asked the Mormons to come to the Sanpete Valley teach the band to farm, though this was met with little enthusiasm.".