Garland Hurt's statement that the Indians participated in the massacre due to the influence of Church members.
Garland Hurt to Interior Secretary Jacob Thompson, December 4, 1857 in Senate Executive Document 42, 36 Cong., 1 sess., 94-95, Congressional Serial Set (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1858), 96
They acknowledged having participated in the massacre of the emigrants, but said that the Mormons persuaded them into it.