According to Black Diamond Pictures Mormon Apology Supports Motion Picture September Dawn's Account of 1857 Massacre.Clears Paiute Indians of Role in Incident LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Black Diamond Pictures, an apology issued by the Mormon Church The Mormon Church is a religious body founded in 1830 in Fayette, New York, by Joseph Smith. It is also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or LDS Church. There are 7.7 million Mormons worldwide. on September 11, 2007--to coincide with the 150-year anniversary of the massacre of an Arkansas wagon train in Utah by local Mormons--supports the incident's depiction in controversial Black Diamond Pictures release September Dawn, starring Jon Voight and Terence Stamp. The film, which is playing in select theaters nationwide, will be released to video in early 2008. September Dawn garnered both acclaim and criticism for its portrayal of the Mountain Meadows Massacre The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass killing of the Fancher-Baker wagon train at Mountain Meadows in Utah Territory in September 1857. It began as an attack, quickly turned into a siege and eventually culminated on September 11, 1857, in a mass killing of the unarmed emigrants , in which 120 men, women, and children were killed in cold blood by local Mormons, who pinned blame on the Paiute Indians. The Mormon Church continues to deny the involvement of church leader Brigham Young, while the film depicts him as being complicit com·plic·it adj. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. . During the memorial, Lora Tom, Chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe INDIAN TRIBE. A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. 2. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and, sovereignty, under the national of Southern Utah--in reference to the Paiute's reluctance to speak up, until now, due to fear of Mormon reprisal--said, "That was a time not to confront this story, but now is the time... People have got to understand the cover up. For most of the one-hundred-and-fifty years, no one asked us our account and we remained silent... We all need each other to work through this story." "September Dawn was instrumental in renewing interest in the massacre," says Patty Norris, President of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants. "Having researched the event myself through historical records and family oral histories, I can support the account presented in the film. The negative responses of critics and the Mormon Church to the film overlook well-documented facts. The descendants are indebted to the filmmakers for helping to bring national attention to this incident." Director Chris Cain, whose previous films include Young Guns and Pure Country, comments, "We feel the Paiute Indians have been vindicated in light of the apology issued by the Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
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I sincerely believe that the Palute Indians got a raw deal in this incident, by getting full blame. It is about time that the entire story comes to light. I am a criminal justice student, and have been looking into this incident for a couple of months for my intern task. I believe this is one of our country's terrorist attacks to the extreme, and feel like there is no reason for the massacre to have accured. Life is bad enough for our people to have to worry about the different faiths in this country turning on each other, when we have enough to worry about with terrorism from outside our country. I think it is about time that the Mormon Church bring it out in the open to all of the public, and not just a few, so they can go on with their lives, and their families would no longer have that held over their heads, and the church itself would not be looked upon so badly. Granted they were kicked out of several states, but look what happened to the Indians when Columbus discovered America, and everyone started coming over here looking for free land and stealing it from them. I think this country needs to take a good look at what is going on, and maybe things that look bad may not be so bad after all. At least we are not constantly at war within our own nation constantly like we were in the civil war etc...We need to open our eyes...
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