Massasoit
If you were to visit the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, you might notice a statue of a American Indian man in front of the east doors of the white granite, Corinthian-style domed capitol building. Cast in bronze, he's tall and muscular, skimpily dressed in a breechcloth and moccasins, with a peace pipe held in the crook of one arm and an eagle pitched upright in his hair. The statue, created by Springville, Utah-born sculptor Cyrus Dallin, portrays Massasoit, the Pokanoket Rhode Island chief who initiated relations with the Plymouth pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1621. It doesn't seem strange, at first glance, that an American Indian leader would be depicted in statue on Utah's capitol grounds, considering the prominent role of indigenous people's in Utah history, but Massasoit, as far as is known or at all probable, never saw the land we now call Utah. Why not a statue of any of the significant native leaders from Utah's history such as Walkara, who invi