The Voree Herald reports on a claim that Orson Hyde baptized and ordained an Indian who calls himself "a Lamanite prophet."

Date
Oct 1846
Type
Periodical
Source
Voree Herald
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Unsourced
Journalism
Reference

"Indian Mission," Voree Herald 1, no. 10 (October 1846): [3]

Scribe/Publisher
Voree Herald
People
Jonathan Dunham, Voree Herald, Joseph Smith, Jr., Orson Hyde
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

We are informed that Orson Hyde, before leaving the camp near Council Bluffs, as a last effort to destroy the churches which he cannot rule, has made a tool of an Indian whom he has baptized and ordained to go out among the churches, and call himself a Lamanite prophet. We presume it is not one of the same two Indians whom Brigham Young employed to murder Col. Dunham, but do not certainly know. he is, at least, one of those to whom Col. Dunham was sent by ordination under the hands of Joseph Smith, and his murder was for nothing but refusing to resign that authority.

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