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Remembering Iosepa - History, Place, and Religion in the American West (Hardcover)
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Remembering Iosepa - History, Place, and Religion in the American West (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth century, a small community of Native
Hawaiian Mormons established a settlement in heart of The Great
Basin, in Utah. The community was named Iosepa, after the prophet
and sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, Joseph F. Smith. The inhabitants of Iosepa struggled
against racism, the ravages of leprosy, and economic depression, by
the early years of the twentieth century emerging as a modern,
model community based on ranching, farming, and an unwavering
commitment to religious ideals. Yet barely thirty years after its
founding the town was abandoned, nearly all of its inhabitants
returning to Hawaii. Years later, Native Hawaiian students at
nearby Brigham Young University, descendants of the original
settlers, worked to clean the graves of Iosepa and erect a monument
to memorialize the settlers. Remembering Iosepa connects the story
of this unique community with the earliest Native Hawaiian migrants
to western North America and the vibrant and growing community of
Pacific Islanders in the Great Basin today. It traces the origins
and growth of the community in the tumultuous years of colonial
expansion into the Hawaiian islands, as well as its relationship to
white Mormons, the church leadership, and the Hawaiian government.
In the broadest sense, Mathew Kester seeks to explain the meeting
of Mormons and Hawaiians in the American West and to examine the
creative adaptations and misunderstandings that grew out of that
encounter.
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