by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“That [Native American] tribe, or most its people, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those Indians, at least as many as I have observed, were white and delightsome; as white and fair as any group of citizens of our country. I know of no...
by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“[W]hen non-Mormon Indians are asked about the program [LDS placement program for Native Americans], their response is invariably bitter and hostile as they explain that many Indians view the program as a form of kidnapping that takes away the Indian community’s most...
by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Vine Deloria Jr., a Sioux Indian and political science professor at the University of Arizona, made a similar observation. ‘… Mormons and Indians share a common heritage, but he complained Mormons are taking Indian children off reservations and indoctrinating them in...
by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction … We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them—in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they...
by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Martin Harris was an exceedingly credulous man, his every thought was a revelation to him. He wanted to ride with me to Painesville. I told him he might if he would not speak on Mormonism. This he agreed to but I had frequently to check him. He was a perpetual...
by Dan Wees | Mar 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“In addition to this, and to co-operate with it, it has been made known by revelation, that it will be pleasing to the Lord, should they form a matrimonial alliance with the Natives; and by this means the Elders, who comply with the thing so pleasing to the Lord, and...
