Kanosh (chief)

Kanosh (1821 – December 24, 1884) was a nineteenth-century leader of the Pahvant band of the Ute Indians of what is now central Utah having succeeded the more belligerent Chuick as principal chief.

[3] Kanosh spoke Spanish,[1] and according to an early 1900s source "learned to speak good English for an Indian.

William Black, one of the pioneers of the Sevier and San Pete Valleys, was a lifelong friend of this chief.

[8] Another of Kanosh's wives was a Paiute named Mary who had been raised by Latter-day Saints in Payson, Utah Territory.

[9] Kanosh and his fellow Pahvants were the only large group of Utes who did not participate in the Black Hawk War.