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Painting which hung in the Salt Lake Temple of Mormon founder Joseph Smith preaching to Native Americans in Illinois. Over the past two centuries, the relationship between Native American people and Mormonism has included friendly ties, displacement, battles, slavery, education placement programs, and official and unofficial discrimination. [1]
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In the Book of Mormon, Jesus told people in the New World that conversion would precede the millennium, and members interpreted this promise as one referring to Lamanites, and by extension, Native Americans. These Native American converts would work alongside other members as partners in building Zion. After the failure of early missions to ...
The relationship between genetics and the Book of Mormon is based on implicit claims in the Book of Mormon about the ancestry of indigenous American peoples, which can be evaluated through genetic research. Specifically, the Book of Mormon claims (or strongly implies) that the ancestors of some or all Native Americans were Israelites.
Mormons considered Native Americans to be a higher race than Black people, based on their belief that Native Americans were descendants of the biblical Israelites, and they also believed that through intermarriage, the skin color of Native Americans could be restored to a "white and delightsome" state.
Sanpitch is almost certainly not the same person as the Shoshone chief of the same name who was alive in 1870. [4] Some sources indicate that he, or his grandfather of the same name, is the namesake of Sanpete County, the Sanpete Valley, the San Pitch Mountains, and the Sanpitch River. However, all of them share the origin of their names: the ...
George Patrick Lee (March 23, 1943 – July 28, 2010) was the first Native American to become a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [1] He was a member of the church's First Quorum of Seventy from 1975 to 1989, when he was excommunicated from the church.
Some Mormon apologists [18] [self-published source?] [19] [self-published source?] [20] have argued for substantial parallels between the Jaredites and the Olmecs. For example, one scholar asserted that writings an ancient Native American historian, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl , wrote about a group of people who came from the great ...