An 1866 article about Native Americans published for the youth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Creators: Anonymous author (likely George Q. Cannon) and anonymous illustrator.
Date of Creation: 1866
Place of origin: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
Physical measurements: 26cm., 4 pages
Materials: Ink on paper
Process by which it was made: Typeset and engraved
Current location: Multiple libraries house copies.
Further Reading
Farmer, Jared. On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Harvard
University Press, 2009.
Mauss, Armand L. All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and
Lineage. University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Rees, Nathan. Mormon Visual Culture and the American West. Routledge, 2021.
Reeve, W. Paul. Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Information contributed by Nathan Rees.