Professor Peter Coviello
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It makes for a fantastically fraught set of relations that stretches across the whole of the 19th century.
The whole of the 19th century.
No, I mean, they had been better than the federal government, but of course, that's a tremendously low bar.
You know, they were one of the major players in
In the West, of course, in the West at the time, there's a lot of warfare between different tribes.
Equestrian tribes like the Apaches and the Utes have the upper hand.
Particularly, they are a route for slave trading.
The Mormons are opposed to slave trading.
That makes the Paiutes an ally of theirs.
But ally is a strong word.
The Paiutes are trying to survive.
There are a lot of talk about the ghost dance.
Remember the ghost dance?
Yeah, sure, of course.
In the 1880s.
The federal government will repeatedly say the Mormons are behind all this.
The Mormons are behind all this because it has an eschatological and redemptive end.
And they think that the Mormons are secret.