“Let me here observe that the Book of Mormon, which has been published for forty-one years, gives an account of the first settlement of this country by these inhabitants, showing that they are not the ten tribes, but they are the descendants of one tribe, and they came to this country about six hundred years before Christ.”Orson Pratt, February 19, 1871 · The Blessings of Joseph—The American Indians · JD 14:7-12