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13447
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English
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And Who Shall Have the Children? The Indian Slave Trade in the Southern Great Basin, 1800-1865
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Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
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Spring 1998
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41
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3-25
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When the Mormons came to Utah, they were confronted with an existing Indian slave trade. New Mexican traders had established a pattern of raiding and hunting for slaves among the Southern Paiutes. Western Utes also stole Paiute children and traded them to the New Mexicans. Often to save the lives of these Indian children, Mormons would trade or 'adopt' them. Although reluctant initially, Brigham Young encouraged these actions to appease the Indians and in an effort to try to 'save' them. This social and religious experiment was not successful in practice. The slave trade was halted by the early 1860s, but the Indian population in Utah continued to decline as Mormon settlement of Indian land expanded
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