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|summary=Who are the Lamanites? When asked about the Church’s '''official position''' on this matter by a writer, a Church spokesman said: "As to whether these were the first inhabitants…we don't have a position on that. Our scripture does not try to account for any other people who may have lived in the New World before, during or after the days of the Jaredites and the Nephites, and we don't have any official doctrine about who the descendants of the Nephites and the Jaredites are. Many Mormons believe that American Indians are descendants of the Lamanites [a division of the Nephites], but that's not in the scripture."<ref>Stewart Reid, LDS Public Relations Staff, quoted by William J. Bennetta in ''The Textbook Letter'' (March-April 1997), published by The Textbook League (P.O. Box 51, Sausalito, California 94966).</ref> Note that this reply pre-dates any publication of DNA criticism.
 
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|sublink1=Question: How have views within the Church regarding the origins of the American Indians changed over the years?
 
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|sublink2=Question: Are all Amerindians the exclusive descendants of the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi?
 
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|summary=LDS leaders have expressed a variety of opinions regarding whether or not all Amerindians are literal descendants of Lehi. Population genetics indicate that Lehi can likely be counted among the ancestors of all native Americans—a position that the Church has reinforced by changing the 1981 Book of Mormon introduction from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors."
 
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|sublink1=Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied
 
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|sublink2=Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek?
 
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|summary=A common criticism is that LDS associate the Nephites and/or Lamanites with the Maya, and the Jaredite civilization with the Olmec. It is easy, based upon typical artistic representations used by the Church, to see why LDS typically associate the Nephites or Lamanites with the Maya. The assumption by critics that LDS associate the Nephites and the Lamanites with "the Maya" is an oversimplification of the facts. Most Church members view "the Maya" as a single, homogeneous group of people whom they associate with the magnificent ruins of the Classic Mayan civilization found in Mesoamerica. However, the Classic period occurs ''after'' Book of Mormon times. LDS research has focused on identifying the characteristics of the Preclassic Mayan culture, which does indeed cover the time period addressed by the Book of Mormon.
 
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|sublink1=Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Mayan cities were inhabited by the Nephites?
 
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|sublink2=Question: Were Mayan cities inhabited by the Nephites?
 
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|sublink3=Question: Is it possible that the Nephites and Lamanites are associated with the pre-Classic Maya, and the Jaredites are associated with the Olmec?
 
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|summary=Since in the Doctrine and Covenants the Lord refers to American Indians in North America as "Lamanites" (e.g., DC 28:8-9,14, DC 30:6, DC 32:2, DC 54:8), does this cause problems for the Limited Geography Theory (LGT) or issues of Amerindian genetic data?
 
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The relationship of Native Americans to Lamanites


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Identity of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon


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See also: All Amerindians are descendants of Lehi


Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians


Relationship of the Maya and the Olmec to the Lamanites and the Jaredites


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Statements by Church leaders related to the identity of the Lamanites

Summary: A collection of all known statements made by Church leaders regarding the identity of the Lamanites


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Source(s) of the criticism
Critical sources

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