Brigham Young’s Extermination of Utah Indians

Did Mormons go to war with the Indians in the Utah Territory and nearly exterminate them? Did Mormons look at Indians as equals? Did Mormons take Indian land, wood, grass, fish and game? Did Brigham Young want all Indians removed from the Territory? Did Mormons enslave Indians by making them indentured servants? Did Brigham Young look at the Indians as cursed and degraded? Did Mormons kill random Indians for the crimes of guilty Indians? Did Mormons burn Indian homes and property? Did Mormons poison Indians with arsenic and strychnine? Did Mormons steal horses, guns and property from the Indians? Did Mormons beat, whip and torture Indians who had stolen from them? Did Mormons purchase Indian women and children and put them to work? Did Brigham Young believe in slavery? Did the Mormons push the Indians into smaller and smaller reservations? What were the Nephi and Circleville Indian massacres? How many Indians died in these massacres? Did Mormons blood atone Indian women and children in these massacres by slitting their throats? Did Brigham Young call Indians the Devil? Did Mormons lie to the Indians in treaties? Did Brigham Young have Shoshone Chief Walkara put to death by poisoning him? Did Indian population size drastically decrease due to Mormon involvement? Did Brigham Young send missionaries to China to obtain poison? Did Brigham Young have an indentured servant Indian child working in his home? Did Brigham Young have scantily clad Indian women whipped? Did Brigham Young want ALL the land of the Utah Territory except small reservations for the Indians? Did the Mormons give the Indians poisoned tobacco? Who were Brigham Young’s henchmen? Enjoy!
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