I Have thus given you a few names if there were ans
many again I think they could be profitably employed
upon this mission there are many who have been
here whose names are not before me but perhaps
Bro Snow or the Councill will be able to furnish
names it seems to be that if these Brethren would
Bring their Families it would tend to ga greater good
as there is room in this country for many thousands
of Laterday Saints to make Homes
as ever I remain your Bro
in the Everlasting Covt
W
[sideways text] Wilford Woodruff
call for missionaries to Indians
Sept 1879 [end of sideways text]
we returned to this place last
evening from a very interesting Mission and
visit with Elders Ammon M Tenney adnd P. J Christofferson our visit was to the [Laguna People|Lagunas]]
and Ysletas & Zunies a class of Peopple that
occupy some 40 Vilages embracing some
(32000) thirty two thousand inhabitants & speaking
16 diferent langugeges, and we believe this
people to be the Nephites Jacobites Josephites
and Zoramites spoken of in the D. C. 3 sec
16 & 17th veses if there are any Nepites upon
this continent they are among this people
they seem to us to be a distinct race from the
other Lamenites upon the continenent
They stand far above them on the true
meaning of civilization in occupying Villages
building and dwelling in good Houses and
instances of carpeted floors cleanliness of person
in the cultivation of the Earth their crops
and vinyards of great industry & especially
of Virture & Keeping their Blood pure from
all other Men & especially in cultivating
the spirit of peace instead of war like—
I Have thus given you a few names if there were as
many again I think they could be profitably employed
upon this mission there are many who have been
here whose names are not before me but perhaps
Bro Snow or the Councill will be able to furnish
names it seems to be that if these Brethren would
Bring their Families it would tend toa greater good
as there is room in this country for many thousands
of Laterday Saints to make Homes
as ever I remain your Bro
in the Everlasting Covt
W
sideways text Wilford Woodruff
call for missionaries
to Indians
Sept 1879 end of sideways text
we returned to this place last
evening from a very interesting Mission and
visit with Elders Ammon M Tenney and
P. J Christofferson our visit was to the [Laguna People|Lagunas]]
and Ysletas & Zunies a class of Peopple that
occupy some 40 Vilages embracing some
(32000) thirty two thousand inhabitants & speaking
16 diferent langueges, and we believe this
people to be the Nephites Jacobites Josephites
and Zoramites spoken of in the D. C. 3 sec
16 & 17th veses if there are any Nepites upon
this continent they are among this people
they seem to us to be a distinct race from the
other Lamenites upon the continenent
They stand far above them on the true
meaning of civilization in occupying Villages
building and dwelling in good Houses and
instances of carpeted floors cleanliness of person
in the cultivation of the Earth their crops
and vinyards of great industry & especially
of Virture & Keeping their Blood pure from
all other Men & especially in cultivating
the spirit of peace instead of war like—
"Letter to John Taylor and Council, 2 September 1879," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/gLB3