Latter-day Saints believe their signature sacred scripture, The Book of Mormon, is a record of three groups of Hebrews who left the Middle East and sailed to the Americas centuries before Christ’s birth.
The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taught that these peoples became the ancestors of American Indians. But recent DNA research has suggested that the majority of Native Americans today carry largely Asian DNA, not Middle Eastern, which critics use to discredit the faith’s historical claims about the book.
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