Latter-Day Saints & Lamanites

2d Nephi 30:6 "Lamanites shall become a
pure & delightsome people."
D&C 49:24 "Lamanites shall blossom as the rose."

One of the first missionary journeys to Delaware
church never forgot  the Lamanites not
surprising a special relationship developed
-. But, during the Exodus from western Illinois
 & SE Iowa to the Great Salt Lake Valley 1846-
1853 they encountered tribes who did
not know the Saints.

-Abandoning Nauvoo in 1846 under
increasing mob harassment, the Saints f
aced a legal trap in western Iowa territory,
- land belonged to Pottawattamie-Ottawa-Chippewa.
- No white has the right to enter that land
except by permission of Superintendent
of Indian Affairs. He resided in St. Louis
Missouri, where no member of the church
felt safe in going.

-Because of strong anti- Mormon feelings t
hroughout the country, almost any
pretext could be used to trap the LDS.

-As the Saints urged their ox-drawn
covered wagons over the rolling Iowa
prairie, they gave over much legal
[...] repinent in SW Iowa, Known then
as the Pottawattamie Purchase

-Federal authorities seemingly
were unaware of the direction
taken by the fleeing Saints.

-And the Saints were unaware of a
special conference scheduled in
Washington, D.C. between representatives
 of the federal government and representatives
of the Pottawattamie-Ottawa-Chippewa.

-As the vanguard of the Saints wagon
trains approached SW Iowa in late May
the Pottawattamie-Ottawa-Chippewa
Federal Tribe signed an agreement
trading their lands to the U.S. Govt
in exchange for lands in NE Kansas
territory.

-When Saints arrived at the Mo. River,
they were welcomed by Indians.