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Show FINDING A VOICE AFTER VIOLENCE: PORTRAYALS OF THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE IN UTAH HISTORY TEXTBOOKS Mallorie A. Hatch, (Shannon A. Novak), Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 On September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children traveling to Cali-fornia were murdered in Southern Utah at Mountain Meadows. While the per-petrators of the massacre have tra-ditionally been described as Paiutes working with the Mormon militia, new historical analyses have begun ques-tioning this version of events. In order to assess how narratives of violent events are transmitted through time, 11 text-books approved for use in Utah schools between 1917 and 2002 were analyzed. In all of these texts, the Paiutes are ac-cused of complicity in the massacre. Furthermore, the descriptions of Paiutes are negative, and there is no discus-sion of traditional Paiute accounts of the massacre. In contrast, initial depictions of the emigrants are quite variable, but beginning in 1968, the emigrants are consistently accused of antagonizing the Mormons and Paiutes. Until 1941, exculpatory statements are made by the textbook authors to clear Mormons from complicity. After 1941, however, most textbook authors begin accusing Mor-mons of participation in the massacre. The change in Mormon and emigrant depictions occur at roughly the same time- in 1941 for the Mormons and 1968 for the emigrants. These dates, and subsequent textbook changes, appear to be associated with the publication of Juanita Brooks' seminal work, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950). THE LENGTH OF THE CONTINUED FRACTION OF Pp3 Michael L. Hofmann, (Gordon Savin), Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 An investigation into the length I, of the period of simple continued fractions for numbers of the form pp3. We investigate some relationships of continued fractions to other areas of mathematics like Pell's equation, in-definite binary quadratic forms and the class number, and used these results to show: (p±l) log() h(12p2)log(4p) (pp3) (p±l) log() h(12p2)log() where h(D) is the class number, = 2 + p3 is the fundamental unit in Z+ Zp3 and =l+p5 2. We also used Matlab to calculate the ac-tual value of the period for all positive in-tegers up 10,000 andprimes up 100,000 and showed the accuracy of our calcu-lations as well as the amazing underly-ing structure that becomes apparent. |