Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have, no doubt, been deluged with irate letters from various Latter-day Saints pointing out your misinterpretation in naming Laman and Lemuel as the ancestors of all colored races [April 13]. Actually, they are considered the ancestors of the American Indian, who is afforded full brotherhood among the Mormons. The Negro, however, is considered a descendant of Cain and subject to his curse. Negroes are thus denied the Mormon priesthood (open, in effect, to all non-Negro males...
Even a careless survey of the pages of the Book of Mormon would show that God judges equally all races and that the saints are instructed to treat each man equally. It was Brigham Young who advocated the maxim, "It is better to feed the Indians than to fight them," and embarked our intermountain West on a new type of Indian policy. Indians have filled the ranks of the Mormon priesthood for generations, and still play an integral part in church affairs...
Your article states that "the Indian in Salt Lake and Ogden is lost, friendless and generally out of a job." They are not all lost or friendless. The Mormon Church has at present nearly 400 Indian children, representing 13 different tribes, living with Mormon families throughout the state of Utah. These Indian children are being treated as "one of the family...
...L.D.S. Indian Social Worker...
Their final score came after Crimson captain Hal Churchill accidentally kicked the ball out of bounds on his own one yard line. In the resulting line out, an Indian wing forward gained possession and dived over for three points...