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Hawaiian Latter-day Saints in the Utah Desert: The negotiation of identity at Iosepa

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Reeves,  Jonathan S.       
Lise Meitner Group Technological Primates, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Pykles, B. C., & Reeves, J. S. (2021). Hawaiian Latter-day Saints in the Utah Desert: The negotiation of identity at Iosepa. Historical Archaeology, 55, 501-510. doi:10.1007/s41636-021-00296-2.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-CB48-3
Abstract
From 1889 to 1917, Pacific Islander (mostly Hawaiian) converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lived, worked, and worshipped at Iosepa, a remote desert settlement in Utah’s Skull Valley. An examination of the settlement’s design and layout, together with an analysis of petroglyphs at the site, reveals ways this religious community actively negotiated traditional Hawaiian cultural practices and newly adopted Latter-day Saint beliefs in shaping and maintaining their unique religious identities; a process that continues among their descendants today.