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| Circleville Massacre | |
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| Part of The Black Hawk War | |
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| Location | Circleville, Utah |
| Coordinates | 38°10′18″N 112°16′28″W / 38.1717°N 112.2745°W |
| Date | April 21, 1866 |
| Target | Koosharem band of Southern Paiute people |
Attack type | Mass murder |
| Weapons | Blunt weapons, knives, guns |
| Deaths | 27 (children, women, and men) |
| Perpetrators | Members of the LDS Church |
| Motive | Paranoia towards Native American people during the Black Hawk War (1865–1872) |
The Circleville Massacre was an 1866 lynching of 27 Southern Paiute Native American men, women, and children by early Mormon settlers in Circleville, Utah.[1][2][3]
- ^ Reeve, W. Paul (April 2016). "Circleville Massacre, A Tragic Incident in the Black Hawk War". Utah State Department of Cultural & Community Engagement.
- ^ "The Circleville Massacre". Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. April 19, 2021.
- ^ Winkler, Albert (1987). "The Circleville Massacre: A brutal incident in Utah's Black Hawk War". Utah Historical Quarterly. 55 (1). Utah State Historical Society – via Brigham Young University.