Daily Kos Articles Re: Indians and Latter-day Saints

[smac97]

I haven't thought about "Daily Kos" in years:

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Daily Kos (/koʊz/ KOHZ) is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and progressive^[1] liberal American politics.^[2][3] The site publishes blog posts,^[4] polls,^[5] election and campaign fundraising data,^[3][6] and is considered an example of "netroots" activism.^[7][8]

Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military.^[3][4]

Imagine my surprise, then, to come across this article on the Daily Kos website: Indians 201: Hopi Indians and Mormon missionaries

It is a well-written article, published today, focusing on 19th-century interactions between the Hopi and the Latter-day Saints, and written by "Ojibwa for Native American Netroots Community," and is tagged with the following: "(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos s)taff prior to publication.)"

It looks like there are a series of other articles, also by "Ojibwa," which touch on interactions between 19th-century Latter-day Saints and Native Americans:

Indians 101: An imaginary war (published September 15, 2022)

Indians 101: The Hopi Reservation in the 19th century (published September 28, 2021)

Indians 201: Mormons and Indians (published August 08, 2019)

Indians 101: Mormon Missionaries & the Hopi (published November 15, 2010)

Indians 101: Mormons & Indians in Early Utah (published September 21, 2010)

All of these articles are worth a read.

Thanks,

-Smac

[sunstoned]

Thanks for posting this information. 

[LoudmouthMormon]

Cool - I'm always interested in learning more about early LDS settlers and Indians.  My own family history has a story I need to go look up and maybe publish somewhere. 

I also inherited this thing from my grandpa, although it comes from the 20th century.

There used to be endless fervor and excitement about converting all the Indians, and bringing forth various prophecies.  From what I can tell, that all basically dried up and everyone forgot they were ever interested in such things, as soon as they heard of General Authority George P. Lee's excommunication and guilty plea to molesting a 14 yr old gir. 

[pogi]

44 minutes ago, LoudmouthMormon said:

Cool - I'm always interested in learning more about early LDS settlers and Indians.  My own family history has a story I need to go look up and maybe publish somewhere. 

I also inherited this thing from my grandpa, although it comes from the 20th century.

There used to be endless fervor and excitement about converting all the Indians, and bringing forth various prophecies.  From what I can tell, that all basically dried up and everyone forgot they were ever interested in such things, as soon as they heard of General Authority George P. Lee's excommunication and guilty plea to molesting a 14 yr old gir. 

It seems like the Lamanite placement program was becoming controversial and was in process of closing its doors at the time too.  In fact, Lee was known as a vocal opponent of ending the program   Along with that, Lamanite programs like the Lamanite demonstration gardens and other Lamanite missions had failed to bring the desired results.  A lot of the hope and push to fulfill the BoM Lamanite prophecies had all but lost steam by the time Lee came into play.  It seems that he was just the last nail in the coffin. 

 

[CV75]

2 hours ago, LoudmouthMormon said:

Cool - I'm always interested in learning more about early LDS settlers and Indians.  My own family history has a story I need to go look up and maybe publish somewhere. 

I also inherited this thing from my grandpa, although it comes from the 20th century.

There used to be endless fervor and excitement about converting all the Indians, and bringing forth various prophecies.  From what I can tell, that all basically dried up and everyone forgot they were ever interested in such things, as soon as they heard of General Authority George P. Lee's excommunication and guilty plea to molesting a 14 yr old gir. 

My branch president where I was baptized was a college anthropology professor and had been inducted into the Seneca tribe. He had grown up with Elder Lee.

I am very grateful for the way the Book of Mormon prophecies are expressed in specific and conditional terms for Israel, the Jews, the Lamanites and the Gentiles. The ebb and flow of fulfilled and missed blessings continues to play out in my observation.

[The Nehor]

On 9/1/2023 at 2:01 PM, pogi said:

It seems like the Lamanite placement program was becoming controversial and was in process of closing its doors at the time too.  In fact, Lee was known as a vocal opponent of ending the program   Along with that, Lamanite programs like the Lamanite demonstration gardens and other Lamanite missions had failed to bring the desired results.  A lot of the hope and push to fulfill the BoM Lamanite prophecies had all but lost steam by the time Lee came into play.  It seems that he was just the last nail in the coffin. 

 

From people I have talked to about the program there were a lot of duds. My grandparents hosted a kid and it didn’t go well. The ridiculous claims that it was changing their skin color are still an embarrassment.

Fun Fact: Stopping things like the church’s program was part of the reason for the Indian Child Welfare Act which mandates native tribes having priority for adoption. There were cases pending before the Supreme Court earlier this year that were possibly going to invalidate part of the Act but I believe the court challenges failed.

Edited September 3, 2023 by The Nehor