Blackhawk (Antonguer) Grave - Santaquin, Utah - Out of Place Graves on Waymarking.com

On a hill overlooking Srping Lake there is a grave headstone monument to honor Black Hawk, leader of the Ute Indian tribe during the Black Hawk War of the 1860s, he died at Spring Lake near Santaquin in 1870 and was buried. For many years, Utah's Ute Indians have held their annual celebration at Santaquin's city park.

A tribute plaque is on the monument. It is labeled "Grandfather" from his family.

According to the plaque:
A child destined to be a Ute War Chief was born very near here in about 1830. ANTONGUER, later called Blackhawk, watched Anglo-American settlers arrive in this valley as a young man with them came disease starvation and the loss of his peoples land.

In 1865 he commenced the "Blackhawk War" against white expansion. Blackhawk led an effective campaign but offered peace in 1867 inexchange for the promise of land for his people.

He died here and was buried in the nearby mountains on Sept 29, 1870.

Four decades later, miners without respect exhumed his bones and displayed them in a museum. On May 4, 1996 he was given back the honor due a great Northern Ute Chief when his family reburied him here in the place he loved and called home.

First Name: Antonguer Last Name: Antonguer Born: 01/01/1830 Died: 09/29/1870

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