Today, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, usually think of The Book of Mormon lands, where the people of The Book of Mormon lived, as being in the Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras area of Central America and even in South America. This is in large part due to the fabulous stone ruins as well as large populations of people that are mentioned in The Book of Mormon. True, there are indications of some "Hebraicisms" in Central and South America but these indications of Gospel truths also show up in many other cultures throughout the world. But what has Joseph Smith revealed about this?

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In the face of this evidence coming from the Prophet Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer, we cannot say that the Nephites and Lamanites did not possess the territory of the United States and that the Hill Cumorah is in Central America. Neither can we say that the great struggle which resulted in the destruction of the Nephites took place in Central America. If Zelph, a righteous man, was fighting under a great prophet-general in the last battles between the Nephites and Lamanites; if that great prophet-general was known from the Rocky Mountains to "the Hill Cumorah or eastern sea," then some of those battles, and evidently the final battles did take place within the borders of what is now the United States.