A Mission to the Lamanites: Frank Warner, Mormons, and Religion at Fort Peck

In 1914, Frank Warner—a Shoshone Mormon convert who had survived the 1863 Bear River Massacre—undertook a mission to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Montana State University assistant professor Dr. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto uses Warner’s mission as a lens for understanding Mormon missionary work among Native Americans and the response of reservation dwellers to Christian missionary work in the early twentieth century.