Fancher / Baker Party Slaughtered in Mountain Meadows Massacre Were of Cherokee (Nephite?) Decent

-- Published with Permission --
June 24, 2003

THE GREAT IRONY OF THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE

© 2003 Will Anderson, BlueOtter All Rights Reserved

see http://www.prophecykeepers.com

Much is being written nowadays about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857, when white Mormons dressed up as Piute Indians and massacred the members of a wagon train in southern Utah.

A new book on the subject has all but named Brigham Young as the person who ordered the killings, ostensibly in revenge to the comment made by a few members of the party, all Missourians and strangers to the Fenchers and Bakers, and who had actually "crashed" the party as we would say in today's parlance.

These few interlopers, while passing though Salt Lake City, claimed openly and boisterously, spitting tobacco as they went no doubt, to have committed murders and rapes against Mormons as they fled religious and political persecution Missouri years earlier.

An "Extermination Order" signed by Governor Boggs of the State of Missouri in the 1830's was only recently rescinded by Missouri Governor Kit Bond.

Brigham Young died 30 years later in the Utah Territory later... supposedly from "food poisoning" from "bad greens," but any forensic pathologist will tell you that only heavy metal poisons such as arsenic produce the well documented events that led up to Brigham's Young's miserable death after a LONG period of vomiting, and vomiting, and vomiting.

The Fancher/Baker Party Wagon Train, which originated at Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas, were mixed-blood Cherokee descendants of the "Cherokee Nation West," who had a federal reservation in Arkansas from 1817 to 1828, when the reservation was moved into what was then "Indian Territory" and is now present day Oklahoma.

Harrison, Arkansas was a mile or two north of the original reservation boundary, but Cherokees had settled all over the area long before the reservation was surveyed, and they had in fact been moving in and out the area from time immemorial. Most Western Cherokees remained after the Oklahoma Cherokee Lands were assigned by The U.S. Government.

To view an historical map of the Arkansas Reservation, see http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7662/cn-west.html 

The Cherokee were THE original settlers of Northwest Arkansas and southern Missouri. My Green family relatives, whose Cherokees names were the equivalent of "Red Wolf" and "Otter Gown," followed Daniel Boone from into Boone County, Missouri, and they and their descendants Benjamin F. "Otter Gown" Green and his brother later became the principal chiefs of the Arkansas/Missouri Cherokees, after the massacre of the Texas Cherokees led by Chief Bowl.

Bowl who was a red-haired pink-skinned man like his predecessor John Watts, who succeeded Chief Dragging Canoe as chief of the hostile Chickamauga Cherokees... who split with the "civilized" Cherokee in the 1750s over the issue of the sale of the Cherokee lands of the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee and Kentucky.

Dragging Canoe was the grandfather of Tecumseh and of his brother Lilowitheka, the Shawnee Prophet, who both continued Dragging Canoe's work to attempt to unite tribes hostile to white encroachment.

The Chickamaugans have never signed a treaty with the United States and probably never will. Their descendants are among state recognized tribes in Alabama, and non-recognized 501(c)3 corporate tribes in many other states, notably Missouri and Arkansas and Florida. see http://blueotter.addr.com 

Chief Du-wa-li (Bowl) and his people had migrated from Arkansas to a 2.5 million acre land grant set up by Cherokee adoptee Sam Houston. This land was later stolen, and the Cherokees scattered or killed, by a militia led by the 2nd Governor of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar, formerly of Georgia, and a lifelong hater of the Cherokee. Lamar personally profited from sale of the 2.5 million acre Cherokee Land grant.

The irony there is that if the Cherokees in Texas had NOT remained neutral (at the request of General Sam Houston) in the war between Texans and General Santa Ana, Texas would never had become a Republic which later joined the United States. These Cherokees had ancient blood ties to the people of Mexico and their ancient wampum belts are tied with Mexican seaweed. The Ozark Plateau has been inhabited since 1500 a.d. by the Cherokee, who settled here after their second migration from Mexico.

In a 1750 national meeting, Chief Attakullakulla recounted the story of how the Cherokee migrated from across the eastern (Atlantic) Ocean to this continent, with a stop-off on an island in the Atlantic off the coast of South America.

The Arkansas Cherokees were descendants of "traditionalist" Cherokees who had moved across the Mississippi river to escape white encroachment between 1730 and 1817, and who later refused to move into Indian Territory to live alongside other Cherokees who had moved across the "Trail of Tears" from NC in 1838, and who upon their arrival, had usurped their western national government, and illegally deposed their chiefs... all of which had been recognized in 3 earlier US/Cherokee treaties.

As the Fancher Wagon Train moved west, a very unsavory group of men who had apparently been involved in the murder and rape of Mormons in Missouri (and boasted of it while passing through Salt Lake City) later invited themselves to join the Fancher Party Wagon Train, so the Fanchers themselves were totally innocent of any wrong-doing. The Fanchers were on their way to California and would have joined thousands of other Cherokee relatives who went to California during the California Gold Rush years and later took up agricultural pursuits in California's rich central valley.

About 50-100,000 federally enrolled Cherokees live in California today, and upwards of 500,000- 1,000,000 or more non-federally enrolled with them. According to Dr. Tim Jones (Ph.D. Archeology PLUS Ph.D. Ethnology) of the University of Arizona, who is a White House Fellow with full access to US Government records, Cherokee blood flows through the veins of 5-7 million persons worldwide, making them the largest Indian Tribe in the World. This certainly would indicate a blessing from God.

Dr. Jones is the scholar who has scientifically proven that Cherokees have inhabited the Ozark Plateau for at least 800 years, and he will push that back to 1500 years once he has the time to finalize the research.

In their visits to Cherokee towns in the early 1500s, Spanish explorers and Friars who accompanied them witnessed and made note of Blond-Haired Blue-Eyed and Red-Haired Green-Eyed Cherokees in their official records. The Cherokee themselves know that they have been mixing with light skinned people for over 1000 years and pieces of modern Cherokee art like "Genetic Cherokee Sisters" certainly bears this out.. IF there ever was a candidate for a group of Indians who may be descendants of Nephites who survived the last great battle of the Book of Mormon, the Cherokee should be looked at very closely.

Tomes have been written, (most notably James Adair's 1775 "History of the American Indians") concerning the possible connection between The Cherokee and the House of Israel. Adair, who spoke fluent English, Hebrew, and Welsh, spent 40 years among the Cherokee and married into the nation, and wrote "23 arguments" comparing Cherokee and Hebrew language, burial customs, mode of dress, etc. and concluded that the two groups were related.

There are many notable Adair/Cherokee descendants, including the world-famous humorist William Penn Adair Rogers, AKA "Will" Rogers.

For more information, see http://www.google.com/search > james+adair+arguments+cherokee+hebrew 

e.g. A photo of the Bat Creek Stone, which had proto-Hebrew inscriptions and had been found in a Cherokee Graveyard in Tennessee, appeared on the front page of the Jerusalem Post just a few years ago.

The Book of Mormon states that if any Nephites survived they would become "like unto the Lamanites" who became a rebellious and warlike people who shaved their heads... as Chickmamaugan Cherokee warriors did. (see a graphic representation of a warrior at http://blueotter.addr.com/)

...but according to Mormon teachings IF Cherokees are indeed a remnant of the Nephites, they would enjoy the status of being direct descendants of the House of Israel, part of a "natural branch" that was "broken off" and is prophesied to be grafted back into the original "tree." Cherokees would be "originals" and not "adoptees" as many white Mormons are.

Joseph Smith, Mormonism's founder, stated that the Latter Days Saints were "...identified with the Gentiles."

So, in this writers humble opinion, the Great Irony of the Mountain Meadows Massacre is that Gentile Latter-day saints, adoptees into the House of Israel, may have murdered actual Nephite descendants of the natural branch of the House of Israel.

How shameful that a group of European people, who supposedly received a mandate from God to translate metal plates (similar to plates which the Cherokee were known to possess anciently), publish them in book form, and then whose ONLY responsibly was to simply deliver that book of scripture to the Indians so that THEY would build up a church of Christ... could shirk that responsibility to simply deliver the book, then co-opted that church of Christ, and later stooped to actually murder the people that that book of ancient scripture was primarily addressed to...

American "Indians"... which according to Columbus who coined the term "Indios" meant "People in God."

Perhaps an event 144 years later on the same date, 9-11-2001, was a message from God to those American descendants of European peoples, who had in fact stolen the Manhattan Island the attack occurred on, was a message from God to "shape up or ship out?"

It seems Indians had no concept that land could be "owned" and were only giving the Europeans the right to come and go and hunt on that Island that is now New York City.

Time wounds all heels!

Will Anderson, Blue Otter © 2003 All Rights Reserved

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