Contested Space: Mormons, Navajos, and Hopis in the Colonization of Tuba City

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Title Contested Space: Mormons, Navajos, and Hopis in the Colonization of Tuba City
Subject Indians of North America; Federal government; United States. Office of Indian Affairs; Brigham Young University; White people--Relations with Indians; Religion; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Latter Day Saints; Dissertations, Academic; Colonization; Missionaries; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords Southern Indian Mission; Indian; White relations; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Mormon; Navajo; Hopi; Jacob Hamblin; Thesis; Native Americans
Publisher Brigham Young University
Tribe Navajo
Language eng
Description My contribution is to show how the Navajo and Hopi Indians may have considered the coming of the Mormons as an invasion by a group of foreigners which led to the resulting contest between the trios for the limited natural resources of the northern Arizona desert. Tuba City/Moenkopi has a complicated history and its origins remain contested because it was claimed not only by Mormons, but also by the Navajos and Hopi. Previous historians have neglected the wealth of history that come from using Native American oral histories. This thesis will include the Native point of view but will also integrate it with Mormon and non-Mormon narratives. Doing so will provide another perspective on some of the following: the founding of Tuba City, the creation of the 1882 and 1900 Executive Orders for Navajo and Hopi reservation expansions, the death of the Mormon Lot Smith, and Native American-Mormon relations in the late 1800s in northern Arizona
Type Text
Rights All rights reserved, BYU
ARK ark:/87278/s6bg5k7h
Date 2010
Setname uaida_main
ID 389338
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bg5k7h
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