Reply #78: Wow! Actually, if you click on John D. Lee, the person who baptised your descendent Hickman, you'll

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find he was the person executed for the Massacre. Another WOW!

Being a NYer, I have only known one Mormon in my life, who I met through the Internet. She lives in Chicago. She left the church just before they were going to excommunicate her. She is a real psychic medium and they were going to excommunicate her for being a witch. :) Her family were converted to Mormonism back in the 1950s. Her Mom is Filipino and her Dad was a GI.

There is so much history of our country most people don't know, myself included, and your link to wikipedia and your grandfather opened my field of knowledge a little more. Thank you!

The other night I heard of another horrible chapter in our history. It took place in California. Redick McKee a U.S. Federal Indian Agent led a treaty expedition to the Shasta people. Shasta and Wintu oral historians tell of hundreds of Indians being deliberately poisoned by the army at a banquet in November 1851 after signing the peace treaty. As I said, a nation founded on violence...

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