Could the sentiments that "it's cheaper to feed them than fight them" and "this is their home" exist at the same time in the same person who also called Native American life idle and refused to leave the lands in Utah? This episode explores Brigham Young's Utah Indian policy after the first bloodshed.
Could the sentiments that "it's cheaper to feed them than fight them" and "this is their home" exist at the same time in the same person who also called Native American life idle and refused to leave the...
When peace offerings did not stop the war, the policy shifted: villages were to "fort up," cattle would be defended, and Captain Moroni became the model.
This episode explores Brigham Young's Utah Indian policy after the first bloodshed.
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Could the sentiments that "it's cheaper to feed them than fight them" and "this is their home" exist at the same time in the same person who also called Native American life idle and refused to leave the lands in Utah? This episode explores Brigham Young's Utah Indian policy after the first bloodshed. Historian John Peterson describes how Brigham tried raising a standard of peace, with more than a hundred cattle sent to a reservation in late 1865.
Ute raids kept emptying Mormon fields and herds. Brigham's stance toward the Native Americans was complicated.
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