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Fact 1985

“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...

Fact 1984

“[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...

Fact 1983

“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...

Fact 1982

“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...

Fact 1981

“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...