The other religiously motivated September 11th terrorist attack.

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What happened was this large group of Mormons killed 120 men, women and children in cold blood, execution style, after they had been disarmed with promises of safe passage through Mountain Meadow Utah. After the Mormons had killed all the adults, and most of the children, they took all the dead peoples possessions and sold them off, kidnapped 17 of the deceased's children and raised them as Mormons, and tried to place the blame for it all on a local Native American tribe.

Told from the perspective of a Native American descendant, this story sums the events up nicely I think.

September 11 Significant to Utah Native Americans

It takes courage for a little, white, Mormon girl to knock on the door of a Native American family’s house. Especially when she barely knows them. Especially when you live in the remote canyons. And especially on September 11, which is when Utahns remind themselves of a massacre that they wrongly believe was committed by Indians.
One morning there was a knock on our door. Grandpa and grandma had just returned from their early-dawn hike up the canyons. Grandpa opened the door to find our neighbor’s pretty little daughter with her border collie.

“Can you turn me into a Paiute and give me an Indian name?” she asked grandpa.

Grandpa laughed. Why would anyone want to be an Indian in Southern Utah? In this very area, Indians have been called wagon burners and baby killers ever since the Mountain Meadows massacre. The massacre had been committed by Mormons and falsely blamed on the Paiutes. Mormon militia had painted their faces and worn feathers to look like Indians, although the Paiutes never wore feathers themselves. They had dressed up to look like Indians with banners around their head, red paint and turkey feathers. They whooped and hollered, even though the Paiutes never had a culture of hollering.

Paiute elders have related the Mountain Meadows story to me numerous times. The oral histories I have heard from Paiute elders are sincere, strong, compelling and spoken from the heart. Indians know that the official Mormon accounts of the massacre are completely wrong. The massacre never even happened where the monument says it took place; rather it happened in the valley on the east side.


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