Mountain Meadows Massacre/Brigham Young
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See also: Citations to the critical sources for these claimsBrigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre?—
Critics claim that Brigham Young ordered the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Link)- Amerindians as instrument of vengeance?—Critics claim that nineteenth-century Mormons saw Indians as a divine weapon given them to wreak vengeance on their persecutors. These beliefs, it is claimed, led to the Church and Brigham Young using the Indians for the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Link)
- Huntington diary says Indians to "raise allies" for the planned massacre?—Will Bagley claims that Dimmick Huntington's journal discusses Indians raising "allies" to help in the massacre at Mountain Meadows which he claims Brigham is orchestrating. (Link)
- Indian chief Arapeen given booty from Massacre?—Brigham Young is claimed to have given the Indian chief Arapeen spoils from the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Link)
- Indian chiefs Tutsegabit and Youngwuds sent by Brigham to Mountain Meadows? (Link)
- Indian chief Tutsegabit "rewarded" for massacre with priesthood ordination?—The author claims that Brigham met with two Indian chiefs (Tutsegabit and Youngwuds) on 1 September, who then participated in the massacre and later "rewarded" Indian chief Tutsegabit for his role in the massacre by ordaining him to the priesthood. (Link)
- Brigham's letter mysteriously lost?—Critics charge that Brigham Young's letter telling Mormons in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone is of dubious providence. (Link)
- Brigham Young ordered MMM memorial demolished?—Critics claims that when Brigham Young visited the site in 1860 and saw the monument, he "ordered the monument and cross torn down" and demolished. (Link)
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre (Link)
- Church blocked prosecution?—Critics charge that actions of the institutional Church and/or local Mormons prevented federal officials from prosecuting those guilty of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Link)
- Church interference in trials?—Critics charge that Brigham Young blocked prosecution of those who committed the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Link)
- Deal with Brigham Young for massacre prosecution?—Critics charge that only a corrupt "deal" with Brigham Young allowed prosecutors to charge and convict anyone with the Mountain Meadows Massacre. (Link)
- Frank Lee evidence?—Blood of the Prophets tells us that William Bishop, Lee's attorney, claims that he had an agreement with local church authorities to select particular persons as jurors (p. 302). If Bishop asserts, which he really does not, that local church leaders agreed with him to dictate to jurors the outcome of the case, Bishop would be admitting to a crime at the most and grounds for disbarment at the least. (Link)
- John D. Lee scapegoated? (Link)
- Judge and the deal? (Link)
- Prosecutors bribed? (Link)
- Prosecution dictated to jurors? (Link)
- Witnesses told what to say? (Link)
- Orders to starve Gentiles? (Link)
- Rape by Albert Hamblin?—Critics claim that Jacob Hamblin's son Albert raped two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and Jacob was later to blame these on John D. Lee. (Link)
- September Dawn film (2007)—
Does the film about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events? (Link) - Brigham and the Mormon Reformation—
Similar charges against Brigham Young stem from the Mormon Reformation period. (Link)
