Decolonization is a conscious resistance to, and re-centering of, power arrangements between indigenous and settler-colonial societies. Decolonization is different in a society where the colonizer has a permanent presence. The members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who interpret and actualize the mission of the Church are largely informed by settler-colonialism. In this paper, I demonstrate how members of the Church have designed and implemented the programs of the Church to deny and deflect their complicity in colonization and how Indigenous people can resist.

Moroni Benally