Comments about ‘Statue of Indian leader returning to Capitol’

The statue should be placed in a public park anywhere in Utah. Massasoit was never west of the Mississippi River and has no historical relevance to Utah or its native tribes. This was a perfect opportunity to correct a mistake and it is too bad that those in charge at the Capitol arts did not take it.

I would think that UTAH would honor it's own UTE tribe instead of a out of state Indian that has not connection. That said we should not be spending money on more statues paid for by the citizens of Utah in hard times. Better spend money helping our needed or students.

While Massasoit may never have been west of the Mississsippi, or have had ties to the Utah Native American tribes, he does have historical ties to Utah. Massassoit has direct descendents who were early Utah pioneers. He protected the pilgrims which allowed them to thrive and move west. Many of his own family memebers died of plagues, or were taken captive. A few of his children lived and their descendents joined the LDS church in Nauvoo and moved west with the Saints. As a Utah native myself, I'm proud they are re-installing a statue of my 13th great grandfather!

While Massassoit may never have been west of the Mississippi, or had ties to the Utah Native American tribes, he did have ties to the early Utah pioneers.

While historical and valued, every photo in this 19 page addition left out the history of the model who stood for this great warrior. One of my friends told the story that she saw this statue as a young woman and fell in love with the man who was the model for it, an married him. Can anyone validate this love story? I don't have the specifics,but I think her family would, if given the rest of this tale as to the truth of it told how. Thanks.

I believe we are very lucky to have a sculpture of Cyrus E. Dallin at our capitol and a representative of the importance of Native Americans in our history. Had another sculptor in that period of time donated another piece of whatever topic, I'm sure it would be have warmly accepted. It is the ART we must appreciate.

Massassoit represents a time when the Europeans and the Native Americans cooperated, traded, and generally treated each other as equals. It was the second generation that started to note "skin tone" differences, etc. I think the statue Massassoit is a great reminder of that time, and of what COULD BE in race relations. A great book to read on the subject is MAYFLOWER by Nathaniel Philbrick.