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- ↑ Stettler, Jeremiah (September 15, 2006). "Skeletons found in Nephi may reveal details of 1853 massacre". Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved May 7, 2023.
[The archaeologist] has found nothing to change the history of the Nephi massacre. Rather, he has evidence to suggest that seven men, ages 16 to 25, were killed that day and thrown in a mass grave.
- 1 2 "Nephi Indian grave yields details of 1853 killings". Deseret News . LDS Church. Associated Press. June 8, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- 1 2 3 Rood, Ronald (2012). "Massacre in Nephi: Archaeology of a Mass Grave". The Beehive Archive. Salt Lake City: Utah Humanities. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ↑ Rood, Ronald J. (2017). "The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from Nephi, Utah and One Event of the Walker War, Utah Territory. Excavations at 42JB1470, Nephi, Utah". In Kiarszys, Grzegorz; Zalewska, Anna Izabella (eds.). Materiality of Troubled Pasts: Archaeologies of Conflicts and Wars. Szczecin, Poland: University of Szczecin. ISBN 978-83-943365-3-0 – via ResearchGate.
- ↑ Wimmer, Ryan (December 13, 2010). The Walker War Reconsidered (Master of History thesis). Brigham Young University.
- ↑ Carter, D. Robert (February 18, 2006). "Frontier violence traumatized both colonists and Indians". Daily Herald . Retrieved May 2, 2023.
- 1 2 Trauntvein, Myrna (August 9, 2006). "Skeletal remains found at construction site in Nephi". Nephi Times-News . Nephi, Utah. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- ↑ Christy, Howard A. (January 1, 1979). "The Walker War: Defense and Conciliation as Strategy". Utah Historical Quarterly . 47 (4): 395–420. doi:10.2307/45060728. ISSN 0042-143X. JSTOR 45060728. S2CID 254442937.
- ↑ Bagley, Will (October 17, 2019). The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806165813.
- ↑ Trauntvein, Myrna (June 27, 2007). "Native American remains reveal evidence of being executed". Nephi Times-News . Nephi, Utah. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
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