Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...softly curving Western river can be curiously unpredictable, full of hidden delights and contemptuously unforgiving of just one human mistake. Well was this known to the 1,600 boating buffs who drove across the Mormon desert country in southeastern Utah last weekend and unhitched their outboards on the verdant shores of the Green River for the second annual 196-mile Canyon Country Friendship Cruise. Into the water they went, dodging sandbars, winding past craggy red cliffs, through deep and colorfully named canyons-Moonshining, Hell Roaring, Upheaval...
...Richard O. Cowan, 25, of Salt Lake City, has been blind for 22 years. A Phi Bete graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was a Mormon missionary for three years. He entered Stanford University last year as a history graduate student, where he has a straight-A record...
...third chunk of Adams House scholarship is a very readable consideration of factors in the success of Mormonism. Bryce Nelson concludes that Mormon unity, not merely as a sect, but as a people, led to their efflorescence in Utah's Zion and throughout the United States. The analogy with the Jewish people is drawn several times and points of comparison are emphasized. Nelson demonstrates that the Mormons have successfully preserved two identities--the ethnic-religious one of the Latter-day Saints, and the wider one of participation in American culture...
Even a careless survey of the pages of the Book of Mormon would show that God judges equally all races and that the saints are instructed to treat each man equally. It was Brigham Young who advocated the maxim, "It is better to feed the Indians than to fight them," and embarked our intermountain West on a new type of Indian policy. Indians have filled the ranks of the Mormon priesthood for generations, and still play an integral part in church affairs...
Your article states that "the Indian in Salt Lake and Ogden is lost, friendless and generally out of a job." They are not all lost or friendless. The Mormon Church has at present nearly 400 Indian children, representing 13 different tribes, living with Mormon families throughout the state of Utah. These Indian children are being treated as "one of the family...