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English
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Saints or Sinners? The Evolving Perceptions of Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah Historiography
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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winter 2004
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72
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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19-46
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Jones examines the evolution of how Mormon-Indian relations have been portrayed in Utah's historiography. While early histories tended to be romanticized and biased in favor of benevolent, gift-giving Mormon settlers whose treatment of the Indians was not only markedly more humane than their non-Mormon counterparts, but also a blessing to the natives, by the mid 1900s, histories had assumed a more critical cast. The "Indian-as-victim" motif was a favorite, and revisionist historians focused on the failures rather than successes of Mormon-Indian relations. Mormons were shown to be every bit as "ruthless as other frontiersmen." Recent years have brought a more balanced and neutral approach to the subject and Jones praises this trend. While "spattered with injustice and abuse," she states, "the pattern of Mormon-Indian relations still differed to a significant degree from Indian relations elsewhere," particularly during the early years of Mormon settlement. "Sinners mingled with saints in frontier Mormon settlements," writes Jones, and while there were certainly abuses, undoubtedly there were also many settlers who truly were a "friend of the Indian."
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