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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Mormon-Indian relations in Deseret: Intermarriage and indenture, 1847 to 1877 Abstract: This dissertation addresses the social responses to two major policies that Brigham Young established and promoted for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) regarding relations with American Indians from 1847-1877: inter-racial marriages and the Indian slave trade in the approximate geographical area known as the "State of Deseret." Indenture and intermarriage occurred in America since Europeans first began to live in North America. However, Mormon leadership in the mid-1800s, although heavily influenced by strong ancestral ties to the religious groups of colonial New England, advocated a little-known, but distinct break from that background and contemporary society. Brigham Young actively encouraged intermarriage with American Indians instead of the antipathy and condemnation promoted by the colonial religious groups regarding such marriages. Additionally, while the Mormons and their contemporaries, the miners of California and Nevada, officially sanctioned indenture, as did colonial society, Mormons again showed their distinct identity, separating themselves from the other indenture practices by adding a requirement of schooling for all indentured American Indian children. Additionally, differences existed in methods of obtaining the children. |
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