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2

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Journal Article

English

Jacobs, Margaret D.

Entangled Histories : The Mormon Church and Indigenous Child Removal from 1850 to 2000

Journal of Mormon History

April 2016

42

2

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2016

27-60

In this article, the author studies the 1980s custody case involving a Navajo boy. His birth mother and the Navajo Nation challenged a white Mormon couple who sought to adopt the boy. This case has many unique features, but it captures how long-time involvement by Mormons in removing Navajo children has led to intimate entanglements that continue to vex relations between the church and the Navajo nation. This case invites us to contemplate the role of Mormon authorities and lay members in Indian child removal and to ponder whether a thoroughgoing truth and reconciliation process between members of the Mormon church and Indian communities may be warranted, as it has been in Maine and Canada, to consider the LDS Church's longstanding participation in Indian child removal. [From the article]

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.42.2.0027

Adoption
Legal history, American setting
Native Americans, Indian Student Placement Program
Native Americans, Navajo
LDS Social Services
Native Americans, historiography
Native Americans, 20th century
Native Americans, Mormon views of

Indigenizing Mormonisms
Views from Turtle Island : Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Mormon Entanglements

Adopted or Indentured, 1850-1870 : Native Children in Mormon Households
A History of the Indian Student Placement Program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Educating the Lamanites : A Brief History of the LDS Indian Student Placement Program
Evaluation of an Indian Student Placement Program
Fifty Years of Relief Society Social Services
Indian Placement Program Host Families : A Mission to the Lamanites
Mormons, Indians and Lamanites : The Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Salt Lake City : The Place Which God Prepared
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Indian Student Placement Service : A History
The Use of "Lamanite" in Official LDS Discourses
"To Become White and Delightsome" : American Indians and Mormon Identity
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society