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Appendix A: Notes on Library and Personal Sources Published Sources The great variety of primary source materials about Mormon history and culture is apparent inWalker,Whittaker,andAllen (2001),particularly the two appendixes of that bibliographic work.See also J.Allen and Leonard (1992,673–762).Especially useful for my purposes in this book, at least in the earlier chapters, have been official and quasi-official periodicals and other collections published under the auspices of the church. Examples of historical primary sources to which I am referring here would include The Evening and the Morning Star (1832–34); the Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate (1834–37); the Times and Seasons (1839–46); the Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (1840–1970); the Journal of Discourses in 26 volumes (1854–86); the seven-volume History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1902–32); and Conference Report (1880 and 1898–present). All of these published primary materials are available at the library of the church’s Historical Department in Salt Lake City and in many other libraries,as well.Recently such works have become accessible on compact disks issued by two or three different companies in Utah. In particular, I made use of the LDS Collectors Library ’97 (1996), especially in chapter 2.Searching compact disks via key words saves an enormous amount of library time,of course,but it does not eliminate library work altogether.Original pagination and certain other details are often lost in electronic compilation, necessitating a check of the originals just to make sure that the citations are complete and accurate.For all of the electronic searching, I relied on my assistant Manfred Heim, to whom I am deeply grateful for his many hours of meticulous research. However, I did the checking of electronic printouts myself against the library originals. a special note on published sources for mormon-indian relationships No general history of Mormon relationships with Native Americans has ever been published . For my general overview of the early history of these relationships, I am relying on the secondary sources listed in my references, especially Arrington (1970 and 1985); Arrington and Bitton (1992, 145–60); J. Allen and Leonard (1992, 62–63, 263–81); R. Ben- nett (1987 and 1997); Parry (1972 and 1985); and Walker (1989 and 1993). The dissertation by Lawrence G. Coates (1969), though unpublished, is a standard and frequently cited source for such history, but it deals mainly with Mormon-Indian relationships during BrighamYoung’s lifetime.Many published articles by Coates,some of them derived from the dissertation,are also very valuable and are cited in my references.A more recent study of a particular historic episode that contains much useful general information is John Alton Peterson’s (1998) study of Utah’s Black Hawk War. While the geographical focus of Peterson’s book is mainly on the Ute and other tribes from central Utah southward, Scott Christensen’s (1999) biography of Sagwitch focuses northward. These are the main sources of my historical information on Mormon-Indian relations,but the interpretations I have imposed on that information are my own and do not necessarily coincide with those of the authors on whom I depended. For more recent history on Mormons and Indians, I used primary and secondary sources cited in my chapters and endnotes.I also consulted certain publications from the Native American press in general and from the Native American community at Brigham Young University (BYU) in particular to get details and background information on many of the developments reviewed in twentieth-century Mormon-Indian relationships. Little of this general background information has been cited because it would have proliferated the endnotes, with considerable redundancy, and the generalizations and general arguments presented are rarely very controversial. In acquainting myself with the contents of the various Native American newspapers, I benefited greatly from the able assistance of my niece Susan C. Eliason, who reviewed back-issues of these papers well into the 1980s. We found in the Navajo Times regular articles featuring BYU, Mormon Indians , and other Mormon matters of potential interest to its readers, including both positive and negative reports, but usually quite evenhanded and well balanced. Mormonrelated articles rarely appeared in any other publications of the Native American press around the United States (e.g.,Akwesasne Notes,Wassaja, and Yakima Nation Review).The Eagle’s Eye was the main BYU publication covering Indian affairs from 1970 on (a couple of predecessor publications had been issued...

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