San Pitch Utes

The San Pitch Utes (Sahpeech, Sanpeech, Sanpits, San-pitch) were members of a band of Ute people that lived in the Sanpete Valley and Sevier River Valley and along the San Pitch River.

[1] Mormons settled in the Sanpete Valley in the winter of 1849–1850, bringing measles and decimating the San Pitch Utes.

Mormons established the town of Manti and the Utes continued to camp, hunt, and fish near there.

Generally, the band was having difficulty finding sufficient food and Chief Sanpitch and Walkara asked the Mormons to teach them how to farm.

Brigham Young assigned Indian Agents for the Pahvant and Uintah tribe districts.