To The Memory of the Koosharem Band Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah

For 150 years, Utah's deadliest attack on Native people went largely unspoken. In late April 1866, during the Black Hawk War, Circleville's militia lured the local Koosharem Band of Southern Paiute into town with a false promise, disarmed them, and killed as many as thirty men, women, and children — a people the settlers had lately traded with in peace. The dead were buried in a mass grave never found. This granite monument, dedicated in 2016 in words written by the Paiute Tribe, exists to 'honor their existence as human beings.'

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Butch Cassidy Boyhood Home — 2.1 mi
  The restored Circleville cabin where the West's most famous outlaw spent his teens
• Beaver — 21 mi
  A charming main street town with surprisingly good food
• Panguitch — 26 mi
  A well-preserved pioneer town and gateway to Bryce Canyon

More markers nearby

• Circleville Veterans Memorial — steps away
• Piute County Courthouse — 5.3 mi
• Pioneers of Antimony — 15 mi
• Marysvale — 19 mi