Posted on 09/11/2011 10:15:02 PM PDT by SmithL
The southern Utah site of a wagon train massacre was dedicated Sunday as a national historic landmark 154 years to the day after the tragedy occurred.
About 350 people watched as Zion National Park Superintendent Jock Whitworth presented plaques to mark the Mountain Meadows Massacre Historic Site 30 miles north of St. George.
The 760-acre site is where 120 members of an Arkansas wagon train were shot and killed by a Mormon militia on Sept. 11, 1857. The Baker-Fancher wagon train stopped in the meadows on its way to California when it was attacked.
Government officials, church leaders and descendants of the pioneers spoke at the dedication ceremony, which took place under sunny skies two months after the U.S. Interior Department upgraded the site's status to a historic landmark.
Whitworth hailed the designation, saying it represents a "reconciliation" among different groups involved. Historic landmarks have "exceptional value and quality" in teaching Americans about their past, he added.
"Each national historic landmark is an indispensable chapter in our national story," he told the crowd. "They include the shining episodes, but they also include the darkest and most difficult, even the one that occurred here 154 years ago today."
The presidents of the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, Mountain Meadows Association and Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants led a prayer and then read the names of each victim and survivor of the wagon train.
The descendant organizations worked for nearly a decade to elevate the meadows to historic landmark status. In 2008, the Mormon church, whose leaders in the past had downplayed the faith's role in the massacre, took the lead in pushing for the landmark designation, filing the application with the parks service.
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Tragedy my butt. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was the largest act of mass murder of American civilians until 9/11 came along.
“The French brought the fine art of scalping to the American Indian.”
Where, precisely, did you come up with that gem? Totally preposterous. The natives were scalping each other back and forth LONG before Columbian contact. There’s quite a lot of archaeological evidence for scalping in the Americas long before Europeans ever made it here, so it’d be quite the coup if the French had managed to teach the Indians the whole business.
As an example, the Crow Creek Massacre of 1325. “Two individuals had survived previous scalping incidents, and were in the process of healing which was indicated by the bony re-growth of their skulls...”
Further: “...scalping was indiscriminately performed, bodies were burned, and there is evidence of the removal of limbs through various means.”
Both quotes taken from:
Willey, P. 1982 Osteology of the Crow Creek Massacre. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Remark quoted in its entirety, to stress the type thing that some will stoop to post to revise history. Did you really believe you could slip that bilge past alert members?
The Mormons had their blood all over their hands with this massacre, and I am surprised one their flock would stoop to try to revise the story over 150 years later. Nice try.
I mean I now revising and creating facts is a Mormon habit, but when the higher ups even come clean...
mormon turds. I had family that were regulars on wagon trains. Those days were hard and somewhat innocent but evil still existed. The bravery and courage of those early Americans is inspiring.
Makes ME wonder what ELSE was in the works!
But it WAS 9-11!!!
Sept. 11, 1857
Obama says:
"Let me be perfectly clear..."
"I am a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do not believe everything that is now being taught and practiced by Brigham Young.
I do not care who hears it. It is my last word - it is so.
I believe he is leading the people astray, downward to destruction.
But I believe in the gospel that was taught in its purity by Joseph Smith, in former days.
I have my reasons for it.
"I studied to make this man's [Brigham Young] will my pleasure for thirty years.
See, now, what I have come to this day!
"I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner." (Lee enunciated this sentence with marked emphasis.)
Excerpted from --> http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leeexecution.html
Plus when Brigham Young ordered the first burial cairn monument and cross torn down he said of the Bibical verse quoted there..”Vengence is mine saith the Lord”
“No, vengence is mine and Ive taken some” thus admitting to reaponsibility for the massacre...
he also hid those being sought for proscecution for the crimes and covered up the Mormon connection by blaming the Indians...
And Jock Whitworth and Zion National Park are useful pawns.
“The French brought the fine art of scalping to the American Indian.”
That is BS, or liberal hokum....The Indians were already scalping when the first Frenchman, Cartier, came down the Saint Lawrence in 1535.
I blame the French for a lot of things...
:-)
Herculeze!
You are correct that an anthropoligist examined the bones, but contrary to your fantasy, the anthropoligist declared that they were NOT bludgened to death. Rather, it was clearly evident that they WERE shot in the head.
You appear to be an ignorant zealot attempting to distort the facts and spread lies. Get a life, Buckwheat.
I’d wager...the French asked the Indians do “just” scalp them, but not kill them.
Placemark
****The French brought the fine art of scalping to the American Indian.****
It’s older than that. Both Capt John Smith and Hernando de Soto found indians scalping indians in the Americas.
Here is some interesting info about pre-Colombian scalping.
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
More info. The Miltmore wagon train and the Shepherd wagon trains were attacked by mormons dressed as Indians. Survivors of these trains reported that the “Indians” spoke good english, had blond hair, blue eyes and beards.
They killed several people from these trains.
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