Research into DNA studies continues to show new evidence that many Native Americans east of the Mississippi have the same Haplogroup X as many in western Eurasia. As the experts continue to try and explain away this evidence, the more I become excited about it. Those in the scientific arena continually want to push the narrative of their great theories about Evolution, Climate Change, Old Earth, Noah’s Flood Myth, etc. With the information from our recent Book, The Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon, I am excited to continue the path of learning. I am finding some amazing things about DNA and a connection between the Lamanites and the Jews. It just makes sense that they are related as we know the Mulekites were Jewish and they surely left evidence of the Native Americans in North America didn’t they? We have also found many evidences of the Hebrew language and Hebrew artifacts in North America. See my blog with additional articles here, here, and here.
Who, then are the Jews?
“Who, then, are the Jews, and what part shall they yet play in the gathering of Israel and the return of their King? There is a maze of fuzzy thinking and shoddy scholarship, both in the world and in the Church, that seeks to identify the Jews, both ancient and modern, and to expound upon what they have believed and do believe. It is not strange that the divines of the day-not knowing that the kingdom is to be restored to Israel at that glorious day; not having the Book of Mormon and latter-day revelation to guide them-it is not strange that they come up with false and twisted views about the mission and destiny of the Jews. It is a little sad that church members sometimes partake of these false views and of this secular spirit so as to misread the signs of the times. More Info Here
“Moses warned the Israelites that if they departed from the covenant faith that “YAHUWAH shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of earth even unto the other.” Deuteronomy 28:64. Most scholars interpret this to mean everywhere but America.
It is not the burden of this book to belabor the point too long, but it is in order to at least mention some points, because they are so interesting. The American Indians did practice certain aspects of the Hebrew religion. “Cotton Mather in Boston, in the course of a long series of extraordinary letters to the Royal Society in London, drew attention to the existence, in Connecticut, of a tribe of Indians which practiced circumcision.” America B.C. p. 17 Barry Fell
Even today the Cherokee nation honors the 7th day of the week. The numbers 4 and 7 are sacred to them, largely because it is the fourth commandment that sanctifies the seventh day.
A few evidences that James Adair listed:
1) They constructed their place of worship so “that their backs are to the east, and faces to the west”, this is after “the Jerusalem copy”! Adair’s History of the American Indians p. 1182) “They do not pay the least perceivable adoration to any images, or to dead persons; neither to the celestial luminaries, nor evil spirits, nor any created being whatsoever. They are utter strangers to all the gestures practiced by the pagans in their religious rites.” Ibid p.20
3) “The Germans among them, frequently say “Yah-yah”, as an affirmative, they call them Yah-yah Algeh, Those of the blasphemous speech’; which strongly hints to us, that they still retained a glimpse of the third moral command delivered at Sinai.” Ibid p.70
4) They “observed a weekly sabbath”. Ibid p. 79 [This Sabbath is the seventh-day, as the Cherokee observe and many Seminole, the same day which Jews observed]
5) When they go to war they always carried their “sacred ark” with them! Ibid p. 162
6) They rejoiced “at the appearance of the new moon.” Ibid p. 20
7) They “observed a year of jubilee”! Ibib p. 226
8) They used the word “HalleluYah” in their religious gatherings etc.
James Adair, throughout his book, notes the set-apart name used by these American Indians as Yo He Wah. Josiah Priest, in his book American Antiquities p. 76 bears out that this was from the Choctaw and Florida Indians.
Excerpted from Yahushua @ http://www.yahushua.net/YAHUWAH/chapter_13.htm
“The words of the prophets cannot be held to the tentative and defective tests that men have devised for them. Science, philosophy, and common sense all have a right to their day in court. But the last word does not lie with them. Every time men in their wisdom have come forth with the last word, other words have promptly followed. The last word is a testimony of the gospel that comes only by direct revelation. Our Father in heaven speaks it, and if it were in perfect agreement with the science of today, it would surely be out of line with the science of tomorrow. Let us not, therefore, seek to hold God to the learned opinions of the moment when he speaks the language of eternity.” Hugh Nibley
Why is finding “Lamanite” DNA in the America’s Important? By Rod Meldrum
Since the Book of Mormon record is a true literal historical record, then one would think we should be able to find some evidence in the genetic record to that effect, as the Book itself testifies that…
The whole face of the land had become covered with buildings, and the people were as numerous almost, as it were the sand of the sea.” (Book of Mormon | Mormon 1:7)
This clearly indicates that this is not some small obscure village tucked neatly away in a remote location unknown to scientists, but rather that they literally covered the face of the land.
This being the case, even with admixture from their contemporary Asian civilizations of the time, who also inhabited the America’s, it seems logical that there would be some evidence for this great and mighty people.
You will see below there is abundant evidence that North America was home to millions of people of the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures.
What is the Problem with those who say there is no DNA Evidence? By Rod Meldrum
The problem is twofold. The anti-Mormon documentary producers were premature in their conclusions regarding DNA studies in the America’s as the research was not yet complete at the time of the release of their video. The second problem is that in order for DNA to be found relating to Book of Mormon people, we must be sure that we are looking for it in the correct location. What chance is there of finding supportive DNA or any other physical evidence for the truth of The Book of Mormon if we are looking for it in the wrong place?
Here is something also very prophetic:
When the Winter Olympic games were held in Salt Lake City in 2002, President Gordon B. Hinckley was asked by a reporter if he had a comment about the lack of DNA evidence for the Book of Mormon. He simply responded that all the information wasn’t in yet. Eleven years later, in 2013, National Geographic Magazine published an article titled: “Great Surprise”—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins.”
The article presents data on a genome found that is related to present-day western Eurasian populations and modern Native Americans, not from East Asia—historically a puzzling finding. (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131120-science-native-american-people-migration-siberia-genetics/)
In the article, ancient DNA researcher Eske Willerslev, of the University of Copenhagen,Denmark. stated: “This [DNA] study changes this idea because it shows that a significant minority of Native American ancestry actually derives not from East Asia but from a people related to present-day western Eurasians.” Willerslev also said: “It’s approximately one-third of the genome, and that is a lot,” he added. “So in that regard I think it’s changing quite a bit of the history” – Published November 22, 2013.” Rodney Meldrum
More DNA Sources from Bruce H. Porter
“. . . haplogroup A is extremely common among Eskimo/Aleut…tribes…Haplogroup B is extremely common in the American Southwest… Haplogroup D while present throughout the New World, is the least common of the four haplogroups. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 110:271-284, 1999. The four founding Haplogroups, A, B, C, and D, are of Asian origin.
“The new data from a genetic marker called Lineage X, suggest a “definite link between Eurasians and Native Americans,” Says Theodore Schurr, a molecular anthropologist from Emory University in Atlanta…” “Now a new genetic study may link Native Americans and people of Europe and the Middle East…” Science, Vol. 280, Issue 5363, 24 April 1998
“Iraqi Jews are Jews who were born or whose parents or grandparents were born in Iraq; Jewish tradition places the origin of this community in the exile following the destruction of the first temple in 586 B.C.” America Journal of Human Genetics, Vol 70:14111420, 2002.
“Haplogroup X is remarkable in that it has not been found in Asians, including Siberians, suggesting that it may have come to the Americas via a Eurasian migration. The virtual absence of haplogroup X in eastern and northern Asia raises the possibility that some American Indian founders were of European Ancestry. In that case, as it has been proposed, haplogroup X was brought to America by the eastward migration of an ancestral white population, of which no trace has so far been found in the mtDNA gene pool of modern Siberian/eastern Asian populations. Am. J. Human Genet. 69:237 241, 2001
Wallace’s (geneticist) newest 241, 2001 and most surprising discovery is a set of genetic markers found only in the Ojibwa and other tribes living near the Great Lakes; found in any other native Americans or is Asia the markers are not “We just don’t know how it got there . . .but it’s clearly related to the European Population. The simple answer would be that the DNA arrived with European colonists, but the strain is different enough from the existing European lineage that it must have left the Old World long before Columbus. U.S. News and World Report, Vol. 130 Issue 4, P. 34, January 29, 2001
“Haplogroup X has now been reported contemporary members of seven specific unrelated language families which are distributed throughout …the geographic regions of the Canadian Subarctic/Great region confirming its legitimacy as a haplogroup…” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, founding 110:271284, 1999.
“It is notable that X2 includes the two complete Native American X sequences…” “Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X” “Finally, phylogeography of the subclades of haplogroup X. American Journal of Human Genetics 73:1178 1190, 2003
“Finally, phylogeography of the subclades of haplogroup X suggests that the 1190, 2003 Near East is the likely geographical source for the spread of subhaplogroup X2, . . . The presence of a daughter clade in northern Native Americans testifies to the range of this population expansion.” “Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X” American Journal of Human Genetics 73:1178 source
X2a mtDNA – Ojibwe Origins in North America, Canada, Galilee
Researching the ancient origins of Haplogroup X2a, maternal DNA
Maps showing the Distribution and concentrated areas of X2a mtDNA (Maternal DNA Haplogroup) in the Ojibwe of North American and the Galilean Druze in present day Israel : Centred in and around Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in Canada, and the area between Mt Carmel and the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Ojibwe (X2a mtDNA) : are among the largest groups of Native Americans–First Nations north of Mexico. They are divided between Canada and the United States. In Canada, they are the second-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by Cree. In the United States, they had the fourth-largest population among Native American tribes, surpassed only by Navajo, Cherokee and the Lakota. Because many Ojibwe were historically formerly located mainly around the outlet of Lake Superior, which the French colonists called Sault Ste. Marie, they referred to the Ojibwe as Saulteurs. Ojibwe who subsequently moved to the prairie provinces of Canada have retained the name Saulteaux. Ojibwe who were originally located about the Mississagi River and made their way to southern Ontario are known as the Mississaugas.
The Ojibwe peoples are a major component group of the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples, a branch of the Algonquian language family which includes the Algonquin, Nipissing, Oji-Cree, Odawa and the Potawatomi. The Ojibwe peoples number over 56,440 in the U.S., living in an area stretching across the northern tier from Michigan west to Montana. Another 77,940 of main-line Ojibwe; 76,760 Saulteaux and 8,770 Mississaugas, in 125 bands, live in Canada, stretching from western Quebec to eastern British Columbia.[citation needed] They are historically known for their crafting of birch bark canoes, sacred birch bark scrolls, use of cowrie shells for trading, cultivation of wild rice, and use of copper arrow points. In 1745 they adopted guns from the British to use to defeat and push the Dakota nation of the Sioux to the south.
Galilean Druze (X2a mtDNA): are centered in the following areas of Northern Israel.
(Population figures and percentage of overall population):
The Galilee
Daliyat al-Karmel (15,000 – 96.9%)
Yirka (14,750 – 98.9%)
Maghar (11,600 – 57.8%)
Beit Jann (10,600 – 99.8%)
Isfiya (8,500 – 80%)
Kisra-Sumei (7,000 – 94.5%)
Julis (5,700 – 100%)
Yanuh-Jat (5,300 – 100%)
Hurfeish (5,250 – 95.8%)
Shefa-‘Amr (5,150 – 14.1%)
Peki’in (4,150 – 76.5%)
Sajur (3,700 – 100%)
Abu Sinan (3,450 – 27.6%)
Rameh (2,200 – 30.4%)
In the Golan Heights:
Majdal Shams (9,700 – 99.9%)
Buq’ata (5,900 – 99.8%)
Mas’ade (3,100 – 99.9%)
Ein Qiniyye (1,735 – 98.9%)
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“It is very difficult for us to communicate to the churches all that God has revealed to us, in consequence of tradition; for we are differently situated from any other people that ever existed upon this earth; consequently those former revelations cannot be suited to our conditions; they were given to other people, who were before us; but in the last days, God was to call a remnant, in which was to be deliverance, as well as in Jerusalem and Zion. Now if God should give no more revelations, where will we find Zion and this remnant? The time is near when desolation is to cover the earth, and then God will have a place of deliverance in His remnant, and in Zion.” —Joseph Smith, Jr.
