Lamanites

"The Mormon community originally excluded Africans—called Lamanites—from membership by claiming that in the early universe, they had rebelled against the supreme god and thus were branded with dark skin."

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Part 2 of The Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths - The Belief System 2009

Blacks were not called Lamanites, but decedents of Ham and Cain.

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Part 2 of The Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths - The Belief System 2009

-- Unto Nephi, son of Lehi, was shown the future of his people, including the degeneracy of a branch thereof, afterward known as Lamanites and in modern times as American

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

The Book of Mormon has been changed numerous times over the years, including the latest change, where the introduction used to say the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians and now says that the Lamanites are among the ancestors of the American Indians.

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The Book of Mormon has been changed numerous times over the years, including the latest change, where the introduction used to say the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians and now says that the Lamanites are among the ancestors of the American Indians.

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The Book of Mormon has been changed numerous times over the years, including the latest change, where the introduction used to say the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians and now says that the Lamanites are among the ancestors of the American Indians.

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The Book of Mormon has been changed numerous times over the years, including the latest change, where the introduction used to say the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians and now says that the Lamanites are among the ancestors of the American Indians.

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The "Lamanites" are Amerindians and were not excluded from membership or the Priesthood.

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Part 2 of The Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths - The Belief System 2009

For example, does he really believe, as the BoM states, that that American Indians ( "Lamanites" as described in the BoM,) were one of the lost tribes of Israel, and were direct descendants of pre-Columbian Judeo-Israelite colonists who fled to the American continent around 400 AD?

Why Won't the Media Ask Romney and Huckaby the Tough Questions About Their Religions? 2007

Then there was "the Sunday mind" of the Creation in 4004 BC, of the Garden of Eden and Noah's flood, of the Indians as migrant Israelites (the "Lamanites"), and of faith trumping "man's reason" – faith: "the substance of things hoped-for, the evidence of things not seen."

About This "Mormonism" Thing 2007