Pioneer Day is just one example of the LDS Church’s anti-Indigenous racism, new book argues
“Indigenous peoples,” a Native scholar writes, “have been uniquely othered within the LDS Church.”
(John Legg, University of Oklahoma Press) In "Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite," author Elise Boxer argues that anti-Indigenous racism is woven into the DNA of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.