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Journal Article

English

Embry, Jessie L.

Indian Placement Program Host Families : A Mission to the Lamanites

Journal of Mormon History

Spring 2014

40

2

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2014

235-276

The Indian Student Placement Program, a plan by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to place Native Americans in Mormon homes, was praised and condemned from its beginnings in the 1940s and continues to be debated. Those supporting the program have pointed to the success stories because the Native American Placement students were able to receive an education and learn Mormon beliefs, one of which is that the restored gospel will bless all people but especially the people of the Book of Mormon, whose descendants are among the American Indians. Those who question the purpose of the program see it as a twentieth-century version of the Mormons' "colonization of indigenous peoples." Still other studies looked at the program's general history. [From the article]

http://www.jstor.org/stable/24243774

Native Americans, Indian Student Placement Program
Book of Mormon, use and influence
Native Americans, 20th century
Native Americans, missions to
Native Americans, special programs

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