[4]: 138—139  The white settlers were acting in retaliation for the recent deaths of four Mormons in the Fountain Green massacre done by a different nation of Native American called Ute.

[4]: 138—139 The murder of the Goshute men occurred in the midst of a series of skirmishes dubbed Wakara's War between Native Americans and Mormons in the present-day Utah region.

Nine Indians coming into our Camp looking for protection and bread with us, because we promised it to them and without knowing [whether] they did the first evil act in that affair or any other, were shot down without one minute's notice.

[10]: 270–271 During the summer of 1853 violence erupted between Native Americans in what is now Utah Valley in Mormonism's largest denomination, the LDS Church.

[3] In 2006 the remains of the slain Utes were discovered in an area of Nephi called Old Hallow during a construction excavation.