American Indian Population Of 1847

American Indian Population Of 1847

Remembering American Indian population of 1847 is important, Elder Marlin K. Jensen says

"The truth of the matter is that the Mormon pioneers had 'come over the line' as well," Elder Jensen noted. "Perhaps only Brigham Young, with his prophetic gifts, could have foreseen at that time that the tiny trickle of pioneers who were then coming into the Great Basin would one day, in just a few years, grow into a mighty stream of immigrants." Some 20,000 American Indians lived in the area now encompassed by Utah's boundaries, he said, including the Shoshone to the north, the Goshute to the west, the Ute in the central and eastern regions, the Paiute in the southwest and the Navajo in the southeast. Ref. Source 3