i strongly feel the first paragraph should be left the way it is the dead have been verified to be of cherokee ancestry and the piaute tribal leadership denies involvement any piautes participating may have been mormon converts and probably were which means they were mormons not paiutes the tribe has stated they had no involvement as a directive of that sovereign government i have reviewed all of the materials and it appears some individuals participated but they clearly did not have the consent or backing of the paiute tribe as a whole the mormons did it its verified their dishonesty about the affair is a matter of verifiable public record i do not see where any other debates are necessary on the matter of the cultural identity of the victims or the involvement of the paiute tribe