Ute Wakarum, Brigham Young, Latter-Day Saints, Mormons, the sex trade

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Channel: Desertphile · 2013 · Travel & Events

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YouTube has a freaky 'And I'm a Mormon' advertisement series going, so I thought I would help the church tell people about Mormonism.

'Walker,' 'Wakura,' and 'Wakara' are Anglicized versions of 'Waka rum,' meaning 'Yellow Man.' Wakarum had a large number of Ute followers who engaged in horse theft and the kidnapped child sex trade--- using the Spanish Trail and the Old Mojave Road. Stolen horses were held at Horse Thief Spring, traded by the Ute to (among others) Peg-leg Smith.

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