Item Detail
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3404
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English
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Toward a Reconstruction of Mormon and Indian Relations, 1847-1877
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1989
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29
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23-42
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"There are reminiscent stories about the last days of the Ute chief Black Hawk. Tormented by his several years' warpath and pillage, the physically broken warrior toured central and southern Utah asking forgiveness. At times, his rite bordered on self-flagellation. Tonsured at his request as an act of penance, he spoke of his obvious decline and of Brigham Young's dark prophecy that those who opposed the Saints would inevitably wither. Would the settlers, he asked, absolve him? At first I set the tableau aside. While aware of Black Hawk's conciliatory last travels, I thought stories of maledictions and penance were too pat and after the fact. But as my research continued, primary sources confirmed their outline. My experience, with a figure and episode of more than ordinary importance, suggests the incomplete and tentative nature of studies of Native Americans in the Brigham Young era. To be sure, much has been done. Consult the catalog of any large Utah or Mormon repository, and you will find an abundance of articles on Native Americans. But the work is episodic and often uneven. At best scholars have illuminated perspectives rather than panoramas. Just to cite a few examples, we still wait for major studies of the Walker and Tintic wars--not to mention Utah Indian wars in general. We have neither monograph nor book on the Utah militia. With two or three exceptions, Indian biography, tribal surveys, and ecohistories have not been undertaken, at least in depth. Brigham Young's Indian dealing, his role as exodus officio superintendent of Indian affairs, his directives relating to the Gunnison and Mountain Meadows massacres, and his ongoing relationship with Saint and Indian all require further study. Also needed are surveys dealing with government agents and policy, pertinent law, trading and commerce, the overlooked events of the last decade of Brigham Young's leadership, and Mormon-Indian relations, especially at the daily level of ordinary settlers and tribesmen. Above all, we need summary and synthesis. The length of this laundry list is surprising on at least two counts. Since mid-twentieth century, Mormon history has been a fruitful enterprise. Scores of increasingly sophisticated articles and books arrive each year, yet with short shrift rendered to Indian studies. In contrast, one need only scan the Western Historical Quarterly'sles and reviews to document that at the same time western and national historians have given dramatic and leading attention to the topic." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Andrew Hunter Scott : Builder in the Kingdom
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity : Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900
Caught In Between : Jacob Hamblin and the Southern Paiutes During the Black Hawk-Navajo Wars of the Late 1860s
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Converting the Saints : A Study of Religious Rivalry in America
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
L'Église mormonne et ses Livres Sacrés
Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Mormon Conquest : Whites and Natives in the Intermountain West
Native Americans
One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Saints or Sinners? The Evolving Perceptions of Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah Historiography
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Sam Houston and the Utah War
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Proper Edge of the Sky : High Plateau Country of Utah -
A Clash of Interests : Interior Department and Mountain West 1863-1896
A Precarious Balance : The Northern Utes and the Black Hawk War
Brigham Young : The American Moses
Chief Pocatello : The 'White Plume'
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
George Catlin, Brigham Young, and the Plains Indians
History of Indian Depredations in Utah
Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier
Indian Sketches from the Journals of T. D. Brown and Jacob Hamblin
Jacob Hamblin, Apostle to the Lamanites, and the Indian Mission
Mormons and Native Americans : A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction
Of Pride and Politics : Brigham Young as Indian Superintendent
Open Hand and Mailed Fist : Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52
Refugees Meet : The Mormons and Indians in Iowa
Royal Blood of the Utes
Teach Them to Till the Soil : An Experiment with Indian Farms, 1850-1862
The Circleville Massacre : A Brutal Incident in Utah's Black Hawk War
The Crisis at Fort Limhi, 1858
The Gosiute Indians in Pioneer Utah
The Hopis and the Mormons : 1858-1873
The Indians in Utah Territory
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Mission to the Shoshoni Indians
The Mormons : A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Mormons and the Indians : A Review and Evaluation
The Mormons and the Indians : Conflicting Ecological Systems in the Great Basin
The Mormons, the Indians, and George Washington Bean
The Settlements on the Muddy, 1865 to 1871 : 'A God Forsaken Place'
The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre
The Unwanted Indians : The Southern Utes in Southeastern Utah
The Walker War : Defense and Conciliation as Strategy
Uintah Dream : The Ute Treaty-Spanish Fork, 1865
Utah's Black Hawk War : Lore and Reminiscences of Participants