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Totonicapan and The Lords of the Ten Lost Tribes






By: LDS Mormon Encounter Tours

Evidence of the American Indian on the content of the Book of Mormon

The writings of the American Indians are potentially strong evidence that the events described in the [Book of Mormon] really happened. For example, there is evidence to support claims of Mormons that American Indians are descendants of the Israelites, provided by a translator of the Title of the Lords of Totonicapán. (To understand, we inform you that the Book of Mormon professes to be a record of ancient groups of people who left Jerusalem and other land to sail to the Americas.) "The original text of the title Lords of Totonicapán was recorded in 1554 in the language of the Quiché of Guatemala legends dating back centuries. " The translator suggests that such migrant groups could possibly have existed. In summary of his conclusions, he makes the following statements:

"The three great nations of the Quiche ... are descendants of the Ten Tribes of the Kingdom of Israel, whom Shalmaneser reduced to captivity and who, being on the border of Assyria, resolved to emigrate ....

"These, then, were the three nations of Quiches, and they lived from the rising of the sun, the descendants of Israel, with the same language and the same customs and traditions .... They were children of Abraham and Jacob ....

"Now the September 28, 1554 we signed this confirmation in writing what we have traditionally told our ancestors who came from the other side of the sea, Civan-Tulán, bordering Babylon" (Title of the Lords Totonicapán, trans. Dionisio José Chonay and Delia Goetz, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, pp. 167, 170, 194).

is said that the blood of these people migratory flows in the veins of the Indian tribes of the Blackfoot (Blackfoot) and Blood Indians (Indian Blood) of Alberta, Canada, in the Navajos and Apaches of the American Southwest ; the Inca of western South America; the Aztecs of Mexico, the Maya of Guatemala, and other American Indian groups in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Islands.