Matthew Garrett

MATTHEW GARRETT {[email protected]} is a professor of history at Bakersfield College. He is the author of Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947–2000. His research centers on the intersection of indigeneity and religion and has also appeared in Great Plains Quarterly, AlterNative, and other journals.

Finding Agency in Captivity: Resistance, Co-optation, and Replication Among Indentured Indians, 1847–1900

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2

When Mormon settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them their institutions and attitudes. These included a perception of Native Americans as fallen Israelites who, the Book of Mormon promised, would…