While American Indians made sincere and often heroic efforts to absorb the tide of Mormon immigrants and to peacefully coexist with them, "resources the Indians had relied on for generations diminished, and in time they felt forced to fight for their own survival," Elder Jensen said. "Regardless of how one views the equities of Indian-Mormon relations in those times, the end result was that the land and cultural birthright Indians once possessed in the Great Basin were taken from them," he said. "What we can do, the least we can do from a distance of 160 years, is to acknowledge and appreciate the monumental loss this represents on the part of Utah's Indians. That loss and its 160-year aftermath are the rest of the story.