Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
…aking of the Mormon People. But Wakara (1808-1855), the Ute warrior chief, Indian slave trader, famous horse thief, and onetime Mormon who eventually led an Indian uprising against his Mormon brethren when they began to threaten his Ute way of life, plays a key supporting role. My next book, Wakara’s World, focuses on him. During the 1840s, Wakara was one of the richest, most influential, and feared men—white or Native—in what would become the Ame…
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