Joseph calls the Book of Mormon a record of "our western Tribes of Indians."

Date
Jan 4, 1833
Type
Letter
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Joseph Smith, Letter to Noah C. Saxton, January 4, 1833, Joseph Smith Papers

Scribe/Publisher
Frederick G. Williams
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Noah C. Saxton
Transcription

The Book of Mormon is a reccord of the forefathers of our western Tribes of Indians, having been found through the ministration of an holy Angel translated into our own Language by the gift and power of God, after having been hid up in the earth for the last fourteen hundred years containing the word of God, which was delivered unto them, By it we learn that our western tribes of Indians are desendants from that Joseph that was sold into Egypt, and that the Land of America is a promised land unto them, and unto it all the tribes of Israel will come.

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