Posted by:
SL Cabbie
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Date: September 08, 2011 10:08PM
And that is to remind people as well as the moaps at FAIR and the Maxwell Institute what traditional LDS beliefs were regarding Native Americans, Polynesians, and their origins were...
The Limited Geography Crowd (Southerton accurately calls it the Vanishing Geography crowd) would have people believing the Book of Mormon points to a Mesoamerican setting, and it clearly doesn't. Additionally, there's the story of Zelph, which illustrates Joseph Smith's thinking on that subject.
Anyone with any doubts about where the intended setting for the BOM was need only check out Vernal Holley's map...
http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/holley/holleymaps.htm