At some point the past is the past, be it Mountain Meadows or The Trail of Tears.   Lets face it:  ''White'' killed ''Red,'' ''Mormon'' killed ''Non-Mormon,'' and so on.  But Roman killed Samnite, Aztec killed Maya, Mongol killed Chinese, Crusader killed Muslim, French killed Prussian, Teuton killed Lithuanian, and, for every ...

I remember the guy (an acquaintance) who was all about tolerance and acceptance when the film ''The Last Temptation of Christ'' came out- how it was an interpretation, how we should accept it for its truth, not its facts, etc.  Then, a few months later, he was outraged by a film insinuating that John Lennon was a closet homosexual, not ...

Do we really expect better?  In the long run (and in the short, as well), ''September Dawn'' won't amount to much.  Mountain Meadows was a supreme tragedy, and I genuinely wish that all those responsible had been prosecuted.  Such was not the case.    Narratives on Mountain Meadows long ago moved from appeals to justice ...