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Painting which hung in the Salt Lake Temple of Mormon founder Joseph Smith preaching to Native Americans in Illinois. Over the past two centuries, the relationship between Native American people and Mormonism has included friendly ties, displacement, violence, enslavement, education placement programs, and official and unofficial discrimination. [1]
Mormonism has had a long history in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.Mormons have had a large influence on the region's development, as they settled throughout the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and took part in the construction of the region's early infrastructure, as well as worked in the lumber mills and mines across these states.
The Pacific Northwest Coast at one time had the most densely populated areas of indigenous people ever recorded in Canada. [1] [2] [3] The land and waters provided rich natural resources through cedar and salmon, and highly structured cultures developed from relatively dense populations.
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Shortly after the Mormon pioneers settled Salt Lake City on the lands of the Western Shoshone, Weber Ute, [103] and Southern Paiute, [104] conflict with nearby Native American groups began. At the Battle at Fort Utah, Brigham Young led the enslavement of many Timpanogo women and children.
Map showing the generally accepted model of human spread over the world. Numbers indicate years before present.The indigenous peoples of the Americas are held by modern scientists to descend from the Paleo-Indians, who migrated from North Asia to Alaska via the Beringia land bridge, and not from the Middle East as claimed by the Book of Mormon.
Paranoia towards Native American people during Wakara's War The Nephi massacre was an 1853 incident when a group of Mormons invited a group of peace-seeking Goshute Native American men, woman (singular), and children into their fort in Nephi, Utah and executed the seven men and took the remaining three as prisoners.
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