Episode 93: The Pacific Island and Mormon Polygamy

Iosepans dressed up for an annual conference with visiting Mormon church officials, circa 1900-1915.
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Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:- Remembering Iosepa by Matthew Kester
- Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaii by Okalani K. Aikau
- Waves of Resistance by Isaiah Helekunhini Walker
- Lanier Britsch’s Mormona: The Mormons in Hawaii
- Benjamin Franklin Grouard
- Skeleton Information about Nahina
- Benjamin Franklin Grouard’s son
- Zion in Paradise, Early Mormons in the South Seas
- San Bernardino by Edward Lyman
- Info about B.F. Grouard’s second wife, Louisa Grouard
- A Bit of Polynesia Remains in the Salt Desert
- Wikie page on Hagoth
- Robert E. Parsons, “Hagoth and the Polynesians,” in The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr.
- Wandering Significance: Hagoth and the many migrations of latter-day Lamanite/Nephite Identity
- Wiki Page on Iosepa
- Honolulu Magazine on Iosepa
- Graves mark a Utah town settled by Hawaii Mormons
- Addison Pratt info
- Sexual Behavior in Pre-contact Hawai’i
Tags: Addison Pratt, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, benjamin franklin grouard, colonialism, hawai'i, imperialism, Lamanite, lds pacific islanders, louisa grouard, Matthew Kester, Nahina, Nahina Grouard, Okalani K. Aikau, polygamy in hawaii, polynesia, racism, the hawaiian islands, year of polygamy
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