8847

Journal Article

English

Gentry, Leland H.

Light on the 'Mission to the Lamanites'

BYU Studies

1996-97

36

2

1996

226-34

"In September 1830, the Lord called Oliver Cowdery by revelation to "go unto the Lamanites and preach my gospel unto them" (D&C 28:8). The call came a few months after the United States Congress had passed the Indian Removal Bill, an act providing for the relocation of all tribes within United States borders to points beyond. Peter Whitmer Jr., Parley P. Pratt, Ziba Peterson, and Frederick Williams also received calls to preach to the Lamanites. The 1831 expulsion of these missionaries from Indian territory and their subsequent proposal to establish territorial schools are documented in letters from the contending parties, which are reproduced at the end of this article." [Publisher's abstract]

http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=131

Cowdery, Oliver
Letters
Native Americans, missions to
Sources, letters

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"A Forced Abstinence" : Negotiating Orthodoxy and the Emergence of Mormon Teetotalism
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
How the Book of Mormon Reads the Bible : A Theory of Types
Lamanite Mission of 1830-1831
Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Shaker Richard McNemar : The Earliest Book of Mormon Reviewer

History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Independence, Missouri
Mormons and Native Americans : A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The First Mormon Mission to the Indians
The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants