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Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre?
Summary: Critics claim that Brigham Young ordered the Mountain Meadows Massacre.- Amerindians as instrument of vengeance?—
Brief Summary: Critics claim that nineteenth-century Mormons saw Indians as a divine weapon given them to wreak vengeance on their persecutors. These beliefs, it is claimed, led to the Church and Brigham Young using the Indians for the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Huntington diary says Indians to "raise allies" for the planned massacre?—
Brief Summary: Will Bagley claims that Dimmick Huntington's journal discusses Indians raising "allies" to help in the massacre at Mountain Meadows which he claims Brigham is orchestrating. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Indian chief Arapeen given booty from Massacre?—
Brief Summary: Brigham Young is claimed to have given the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Indian chiefs Tutsegabit and Youngwuds sent by Brigham to Mountain Meadows? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Indian chief Tutsegabit "rewarded" for massacre with priesthood ordination?—
Brief Summary: The author claims that Brigham met with two Indian chiefs (Tutsegabit and Youngwuds) on 1 September, who then participated in the massacre and later "rewarded" Indian chief Tutsegabit for his role in the massacre by ordaining him to the priesthood. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Brigham's letter mysteriously lost?—
Brief Summary: Critics charge that Brigham Young's letter telling Mormons in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone is of dubious providence. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Brigham Young ordered MMM memorial demolished?—
Brief Summary: Critics claims that when Brigham Young visited the site in 1860 and saw the monument, he "ordered the monument and cross torn down" and demolished. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Church blocked prosecution?—
Brief Summary: Critics charge that actions of the institutional Church and/or local Mormons prevented federal officials from prosecuting those guilty of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Church interference in trials?—
Brief Summary: Critics charge that Brigham Young blocked prosecution of those who committed the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Deal with Brigham Young for massacre prosecution?—
Brief Summary: Critics charge that only a corrupt "deal" with Brigham Young allowed prosecutors to charge and convict anyone with the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Frank Lee evidence?—
Brief Summary: Blood of the Prophets tells us that William Bishop, Lee's attorney, claims that he had an agreement with local church authorities to select particular persons as jurors (p. 302). If Bishop asserts, which he really does not, that local church leaders agreed with him to dictate to jurors the outcome of the case, Bishop would be admitting to a crime at the most and grounds for disbarment at the least. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - John D. Lee scapegoated? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Judge and the deal? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Prosecutors bribed? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Prosecution dictated to jurors? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Witnesses told what to say? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Orders to starve Gentiles? (Click here for full article)
∗ ∗ ∗ - Rape by Albert Hamblin?—
Brief Summary: Critics claim that Jacob Hamblin's son Albert raped two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and Jacob was later to blame these on John D. Lee. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗
- Church blocked prosecution?—
- Amerindians as instrument of vengeance?—