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Show It has always been the policy of the Mormon people to court the friendship of the American In-dian and treat him kindly. President Brigham Young said, " It is cheaper to feed them than fight thefm. ' ' In the early rise of the Church, Missionaries were sent out to preach to them. The Prophet Joseph Smith visited and preach-ed to them. As early as October 1830, Oliver Cowdry, Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whittmer, Jr. and Ziba Peter-son were called by revelation to preach the gospel to the Lamanites ( Indians). In 1835 elders Brigham Young, John P. Greene and Amos Orton were ap-pointed to preach the gospel to them and when the people were driven from their homes in Missouri and Illnois and wended their way into the unknown west, the various Indian tribes in Iowa, Nebraska and on the western plains received them kindly, as a rule, believing they were outcasts, driven from their homes and the graves of their fore- fathers, as they themselves had been. In the year 1858, I with my parents came from Omaha where we had lived for some two years, was then twelve years of age, After spending one year in Salt Lake City, herd-ing cows in the summer time, I with my parents and two brothers and one sister went to Sanpete and were pioneers of Mount Pleasant, and in the year 1864 were also pioneers of Richfield in Sevier County. The Indians at that time were generally friendly towards the settlers, although, a few years previous |
