The Lamanite curse

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Criticism

• Critics claim that the Church believed that Lamanites who accepted the Gospel would become light-skinned.
• "Mormon folklore" claims that Native Americans and Polynesians carry a curse based upon "misdeeds on the part of their ancestors."
• God cursed the Lamanites with a "red skin."

Source(s) of the criticism

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 43. ( Index of claims )
• Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 40, 184. ( Index of claims )

Response

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Conclusion

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Endnotes

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Further reading

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