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Chapter 4 | A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church, a work by author: Simon G. Southerton
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Claim Evaluation |
Losing a Lost Tribe |
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LDS Scholars frequently associate the Olmec and Maya with the Jaredite and Nephite civilizations.Author's sources: No source given.
Latter-day Saints sometimes associate the Nephites and/or Lamanites with the Maya, and the Jaredite civilization with the Olmec. There is circumstantial evidence to support this:
It is easy, therefore, to see why Latter-day Saints typically associate the Nephites or Lamanites with the Maya.
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