Tutsegabit

Tutsegabit was a 19th-century leader of the Piedes bands of the Paiute tribe.

In 1857 Tutsegabit was the chief of six bands of Piedes.^[1]

It is known that Tutsegabit was in Salt Lake City on September 1, 1857, and that he was ordained an elder by Brigham Young.^[2] To have been present at Mountain Meadows when the massacre occurred, he would have had to have returned to southern Utah by September 11. Dimick B. Huntington in his journal claims that Tutsegabit was in Salt Lake City on September 10. Wilford Woodruff records Tutsegabit's ordination as an elder in his September 16 journal entry, but Woodruff does not indicate the day on which the actual ordination occurred.

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