A person of this tribe who acquired the name Hot Stuff for surviving a chemistry lab explosion tried to assassinate one of its leaders, but was thwarted by that leader’s wife Chipeta. Kanosh was an important advocate for peaceful relations between white settlers and this tribe, such as keeping his Pahvant band of this tribe out of a war led by the Timpanogos man Antonga. Frederick Pitkin’s 1879 gubernatorial campaign centered on the removal of this tribe, a process that was accelerated after the (*) Meeker Incident the same year. The Spanish acquired their name for the Nʉmʉnʉʉ (“nih-mih-nee”) tribe from this tribe’s word for “enemy,” “Comanche.” Abraham Lincoln began the forcible removal of this tribe by signing an 1861 bill relocating them to the Uinta River Valley. For 10 points, name this tribe of the western Rockies and Great Basin who are close relatives of the Shoshone and Paiute ■END■
ANSWER: Ute (“yoot”) Tribe [accept subgroups such as, but not limited to, Northern Ute, Southern Ute, Sanpits, Weeminuche, Muache, Capote, Tabeguache, Yampa, or White River Ute; accept Uintah or Timpanogos prior to mention; reject “Paiute”] (The Timpanogos people consider themselves to be Shoshone, but they have been commonly categorized as Ute.)
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