natives? I tell you, if we send this
people off from us and treat them
with contempt we shall regret it, and
mourn because of it. I am going to
tell you what to do with these natives,
you Bishops and Presidents of
and , call out those teams
which you have about you, all of
them, and if these Indians want
wood, haul it for them for you have
burned theirs, and they need a little
wood as well as you. Let them have
feed on the range for their horses,
wood to burn, and then they will let
you alone. You will eat their fish
too, on which they depend for a
living one part of the year, and
every service berry that you can
find in the mountains, and still
you grumble to let them have
a little with you. You don't want
the crickets, and therefore they
can have the whole of them, but
you have secured the antelope and
everything else that you could make
any kind of use of. Before the whites
came, there was plenty of fish and , plenty of game of almost every
description; but now the whites have
killed off these things, and there is
scarcely anything left for the poor
natives to live upon. Brethren what
are you going to do with them?
Kick them out of doors when they
come in and let them starve to
death? If we do this, we shall most
assuredly regret it. Well, what will
you do brother ? I will
tell you what I will do; there is
brother here, and he is an
agent, and I want him to set off a
piece of land for the natives and
make a division line, and have it
clearly understood that they are not
to intrude upon your ground, nor you
upon theirs. In addition to this, make
a road from their land, so that when
they want to come to the city they
can do it without breaking down
fences or intruding upon anybody's
land. Then teach them to work, to
fence in their land, to plough, to raise
wheat and corn, and potatoes, and
everything they need; teach them to
be cleanly and industrious, and prevail
on them to send their children to
school to learn to read and write the
English language, and let some of
those men that used to talk of
teaching the Lamanites, and of con-
verting them, let them go down and
build a nice school-house in their
settlement, and there teach them the
principles of civilization. And instead
of you wasting your hundreds and
thousands worth of time, and of grain,
and clothing, do as they did in last year; they formed a
society for the benefit of these
Indians, and put their means together
and made them clothing of various
kinds, and distributed those articles
which they were enabled to obtain
among the Lamanites, and do you go
and do likewise. Gather up the yarn,
and the cotton yarn, and woollen
yarn, and make them up into
clothes to make them comfort-
able. But they must work for
those things; teach them to work
for all they have and don't encourage
the idle, those who refuse to work.
In this way you will gradually bring
them in to civilization, and they will
be convinced that you are their friends,
and that you intend to do them good,
and these things will lead them to
give ear to the Gospel and be bap-
tized for the remission of their sins.
Now are we going to try to make
them one, and encourage them to
abide here in peace, or are we
determined to drive them from us?
I can tell you the Lamanites of these
mountains will yet be a shield to this
people if we do right, and if we will
not do our duty, our necks are ready
for the halter or the knife; yes, you
will find that our necks will be ready
for the knives of our enemies, if we
do not look to these poor degraded
natives.
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natives? I tell you, if we send this
people off from us and treat them
with contempt we shall regret it, and
mourn because of it. I am going to
tell you what to do with these natives,
you Bishops and Presidents of
and , call out those teams
which you have about you, all of
them, and if these Indians want
wood, haul it for them for you have
burned theirs, and they need a little
wood as well as you. Let them have
feed on the range for their horses,
wood to burn, and then they will let
you alone You will eat their fish
too, on which they depend for a
living one part of the year, and
every service berry that you can
find in the mountains, and still
you grumble to let them have
a little with you. You don't want
the crickets, and therefore they
can have the whole of them, but
you have secured the antelope and
everything else that you could make
any kind of use of. Before the whites
came, there was plenty of fish and antelope, plenty of game of almost every
description; but now the whites have
killed off these things, and there is
scarcely anything left for the poor
natives to live upon. Brethren what
are you going to do with them?
Kick them out of doors when they
come in and let them starve to
death? If we do this, we shall most
assuredly regret it. Well, what will
you do brother ? I will
tell you what I will do; there is
brother here, and he is an
agent, and I want him to set off a
piece of land for the natives and
make a division line, and have it
clearly understood that they are not
to intrude upon your ground, nor you
upon theirs. Inaddition to this, make
a road from their land, so that when
they want to come to the city they
can do it without breaking down
fences or intruding upon anybody's
land. Then teach them to work, to
fence in their land, to plough, to raise
wheat and corn, and potatoes, and
everything they need; teach them to
be cleanly and industrious, and prevail
on them to send their children to
school to learn to read and write the
English language, and let some of
those men that used to talk of
teaching the Lamanites, and of converting them, let them go down and
build a nice school-house in their
settlement, and there teach them the
principles of civilization. And instead
of you wasting your hundreds and
thousands worth of time, and of grain,
and clothing, do as they did in last year; they formed a
society for the benefit of these
Indians, and put their means together
and made them clothing of various
kinds, and distributed those articles
which they were enabled to obtain
among the Lamanites, and do you go
and do likewise. Gather up the yarn,
and the cotton yarn, and woolen
yarn, and make them up into
clothes to make them comfortable. But they must work for
those things; teach them to work
for all they have and don't encourage
the idle, those who refuse to work.
In this way you will gradually bring
them in to civilization, and they will
be convinced that you are their friends,
and that you intend to do them good,
and these things will lead them to
give ear to the Gospel and be baptized for the remission of their sins.
Now are we going to try to make
them one, and encourage them to
abide here in peace, or are we
determined to drive them from us?
I can tell you the Lamanites of these
mountains will yet be a shield to this
people if we do right, and if we will
not do our duty, our necks are ready
for the halter or the knife; yes, you
will find that our necks will be ready
for the knives of our enemies, if we
do not look to these poor degraded
natives.