Indigenous Latter-day Saints Grapple With Church History

When Sarah Newcomb was in the third grade, she and her classmates got their choice of roles in the Thanksgiving play -- a Pilgrim with a buckled hat or a Native American wearing a feathered headband. Growing up in Virginia as an ethnic Tsimshian, a Native Alaskan people, Newcomb was the only Indigenous person in her class, and she was proud of it. She went straight for the headband, but was surprised to see every other child pick the Pilgrim hat.