High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chief Sagwitch , his name meant "Orator", (1822– March 20, 1887) was born in 1822 on the lower Bear River (in today`s Box Elder County, Utah). He was a nineteenth century chieftain of a band of Northwestern Shoshone that converted to Mormonism. His group were the ones killed in the Bear River Massacre. Sagwitch himself was injured in the massacre but survived.