2007-03-18 17:07:49 · 9 answers · asked by Beavis Christ AM 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No such people exist. This is a fairytale made up by the mormons at the time when Indians roamed North America so that the Indians would not kill the mormons!
2007-03-18 17:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by zoril 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To determine if the Native Americans (and this must include the native North American, native Central American and native South American Indians) have Hebrew DNA, one must first have a sample of the DNA of the first Hebrews to come over to these continents; in the case of the Mormons, the DNA of Lehi and his wife, and their children and grandchildren.
Then, we must have a sample of the DNA of the people at the end of the Book of Mormon. Because there was a span of 1,000 years from the beginning to the end. DNA can go thru a lot. We don't believe taht the Lehites were the only people to be in the "New World" at that time. We also don't believe that these people kept to themselves; in fact, I think it's in the Book of Mormon that the Nephites and the Lamanites intermingled with others. This would have diluted the DNA.
And since it was anther 1400 (approximately) years till the Book of Mormon was found and translated, the Native American Indians had that much more time to dilute their DNA.
So, there really is no way that DNA can either prove OR DISprove the Book of Mormon.
2007-03-19 07:43:12 · answer #2 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No...why would they? That religion and culture was no in this part of the world, it belonged to the middle east.
The only "Hebrew Native Americans" would probably only be anyone today who had a parent marry into a Hebrew family and was raised with it.
2007-03-19 15:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Native Americans came from Egypt.
2007-03-19 00:27:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kalistrat 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Native Americans being " the Lost Tribe" of Isreal is a myth perported by The Mormon Church...
2007-03-19 00:12:50 · answer #5 · answered by cowboymanhrsetrnr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to DNA testing, no. The Mormons are trying to determine how to manage this discrepancy.
2007-03-19 00:13:44 · answer #6 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to these links:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/losttribes2.html
http://www.geocities.com/michhist/detroitnative.html
http://members.tripod.com/~EPHRAIM8/chap4.html
2007-03-19 00:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slamming mormons never stops being fun, does it?
2007-03-19 00:30:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I'm not one of them.
2007-03-19 00:12:15 · answer #9 · answered by crystal89431 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋