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Yes. Most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) believe that some or all of the Native Americans descend from three groups described in the Book of Mormon - the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. These were groups of Israelites which left the Old World (the Jaredites at the time of the Tower of Babel, the Nephites and Lamanites at the reign of Zedekiah).
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoMembers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) believe in the Book of Mormon, which describes a group of Israelites that left Jerusalem at the time of Jeremiah (about 600 B.C.) This was a faithful group which left because God forewarned them of the Babylonian captivity and the destruction of Jerusalem. The Book of Mormon describes them travelling to the Americas, and Mormons believe that they are the ancestors of the Native Americans. When arriving in the Americas, the Israelite group split into a wicked group and a righteous group. The wicked group eventually killed off the righteous group. So, essentially, the Mormons believe that the Native Americans are a lost tribe of Israel which destroyed other members of their own tribe.
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Because they're very confused maybe.
Actually, the church believes that the native Americans are a tribe of Israel. They have never taught that a lost tribe was killed off.
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∙ 12y agoNo. They believe that Native Americans are descendants of Israelites who traveled to America 600 years before Christ, and the Book of Mormon comes from these people.
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