Why don they teach about the Mountain Meadows Massacre in school?
Today is the anniversary of this horrible event,”the first 9/11″ as it has sometimes been called.Thirtyfive years ago,when first I came across a reference to what happened on September 11,1857 to the Fancher party in Southwestern Utah,it was difficult to research.In recent years however,much has come to light,with the publication of books and papers.Most evidence is very condemning toward the conduct of LDS leaders.In her book American Massacre,author Sally Denton,who is from a Mormon background,paints a scathing indictment against the perpetrators.She charges that girls in the party were raped before being killed,and that the killers were after loot as an additional motive for the slaughter.It has always been charged that local Indians,stirred up by the Mormons,did most of the killing.This may not be true.The Southern Paiute were one of the least warlike tribes in western America,and in interviews and oral history they insist that they had no part in the killing.The question that is u
