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Title Isaac Higbee's "reply to request for council regarding the Indians" to Brigham Young, dated October 18, 1849
Subject Salt Lake City (Utah); Latter Day Saints; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; White people--Relations with Indians; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords Brigham Young, Salt Lake City; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Utes; Shoshones; Native Americans
Publisher Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
File Name Brigham Young Office Files Reel 24 Box 16 Folder 19
Collection Name CR1234 1
Source The Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language eng
Description In response to a request for "council regarding the Indians" Issac Hibee wrote to Brigham Young telling him the issues that he felt prevented the Indians from responding to the missionary efforts of those Young sent out. Higbee warned Young that settlers spent too much time "smoking and chatting"with the Indians , which encouraged "idleness and ignorance" instead of teaching them to labor. Higbee told Brigham Young to council settlers to stop becoming too "familiar"with the Indians, to not allow the children of settlers to "fraternize" with the Indians, and instead to treat the Indians as inferiors rather than "equals." Higbee claimed that treating the Indians as "equals" would slow down the missionary work of the church. Higbee also instructed Young to instruct settlers to "take care of their own business"and the Indians would "take care of their own business."
Type Text
Coverage Utah
Format application/pdf
Rights Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the Church History Library for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ARK ark:/87278/s6pz864p
Holding Institution The Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Creator Higbee, Issac
Date 1849-10-18
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake City
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ID 390107
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pz864p

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