Hollywood has added its own twist to this! The mormons involved in this massacre were living in a state of paranoia. Read the following historical events and you may get a better understanding of why they did what they did. The Haun's Mill massacre, the Battle of Crooked River, the Missouri extermination order, the murder of Joseph Smith, History of Nauvoo Illinois etc.
originoly it was just Indeans or native amaricans but then thay threatend the people that whare living in the area. Who whare mormon .
Mormons actualy had a treaty(and still do) with the Native amaricans in this area that if Utah ever whare to get invaded we would protect and aid eachother....
however the indeans got confused at thoght that thay whare attaking...
People didn't focus on it because the media doesn't focus on the fringe Wacko Christian element. Now that we have a prominent LDS member up for president and could very well win, it's now okay to go for interesting early American religious history. They should do one about how the Mormons were driven out of state after state even after barn burning deadly massacres by so called Christians.
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rustymente 4 years ago
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rustymente 4 years ago
Hollywood has added its own twist to this! The mormons involved in this massacre were living in a state of paranoia. Read the following historical events and you may get a better understanding of why they did what they did. The Haun's Mill massacre, the Battle of Crooked River, the Missouri extermination order, the murder of Joseph Smith, History of Nauvoo Illinois etc.
imnvrgvnup 4 years ago
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rustymente 4 years ago
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rustymente 4 years ago
originoly it was just Indeans or native amaricans but then thay threatend the people that whare living in the area. Who whare mormon .
Mormons actualy had a treaty(and still do) with the Native amaricans in this area that if Utah ever whare to get invaded we would protect and aid eachother....
however the indeans got confused at thoght that thay whare attaking...
it was a mistake.
Zeadman2 4 years ago
People didn't focus on it because the media doesn't focus on the fringe Wacko Christian element. Now that we have a prominent LDS member up for president and could very well win, it's now okay to go for interesting early American religious history. They should do one about how the Mormons were driven out of state after state even after barn burning deadly massacres by so called Christians.
vintageyellow71 4 years ago
I was raised in Utah as a mormon.
Both my church education and public secular education taught this event was carried out by Indians ONLY.
It took a non mormon to tell the truth about this..
maxpixel 4 years ago
Good acting by Jon Voight!
Excellent movie for christians/ ****
rustymente 4 years ago