DNA Evidence of A European/Middle East race of Indian

Light Skinned North American Indians

Since traditional Jews are known to be Caucasian or of lighter skin color. It’s not hard to fathom that the Tribe of Manasseh, the tribe Lehi descended from, also would have Caucasian or lighter skin color. Haplogroup X found in North American Indians is considered to be a Caucasian DNA marker. Other North, Central, and South American Indians show the Haplogroups A, B, C, and D, which came from migrating Asian ethnic tribes of that period, with which Laman’s seed would have likely intermarried.

The Nephites became Lamanites and Lamanites became Nephites suggesting different shades in skin color as the Book of Mormon states.

Genetic evidence supports the Book of Mormon narrative.

“A recent survey of European mtDNA has demonstrated the presence of the same “other” haplotype motif in modern European populations, in which it is called “Haplogroup X.””
(MtDNA haplogroup X: An Ancient Link between Europe/Western Asia and North America?)

“To date, haplogroup X has not been unambiguously identified in Asia, raising the possibility that some Native American founders were of Caucasian ancestry.”
(MtDNA haplogroup X: An Ancient Link between Europe/Western Asia and North America?)

Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian peoples with ties to the Middle East and Europe
(National Geographic “Great Surprise”—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins”)

On the basis of genetic analysis of some serum and red-cell protein polymorphisms, Szathmary and Reed (1972) and Szathmary et al. (1974) were able to reveal the presence of "Caucasian" alleles in the southeastern Ojibwa and to give an estimate of Caucasian admixture of -30%; however, more recent data on other autosomal locus polymorphisms indicate that the genetic admixture may be as great as 50%.

(mtDNA and Y Chromosome-Specific Polymorphisms in Modern Ojibwa: Implications about the Origin of Their Gene Pool)

William Penn wrote the following to a friend in England. “I found them [the Indians of the eastern shore of North America] with like countenances with the Hebrew race; and their children of so lively a resemblance to them that a man would think himself in Duke’s place, or Barry Street, in London, when he sees them.”
(Murray 1908)

“The Cherokee are of a lighter color than the greater number of the North American Indians that are known to me.”
(Barton 1798 pg. XIV)

“They (Algonquin Indians) have the same complexion as the French”
(Jouvency 1710)

About Gaspesian/Micmac Indians

“Although children are born among them with hair of different colours, as in Europe.”
(Clercq 1680 pg. 237)

“The hue or color of their bodies is generally not as white as ours though some quite fair skinned ones are to be found and most are born white.”
(In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People, by Dean R. Snow, Charles T. Gehring, William A. Starna)

The Amlicites were Nephites who wanted to be ruled by a king instead of appointed judges. These Nephites rebelled and in their rebellion joined the Lamanites.  The seed of Laman on their arrival in the new world most intermarried with the indigenous Asian ethnic tribes of their day. So the Amlicites looked like Nephites instead of Lamanites. So in order for the Amlicites to distinguish themselves from the Nephites they marked their foreheads with red paint. The Cherokee Indians are excellent candidates to be the Zoramites/Amlicites. From historical accounts to the current day many Cherokee have haplo group x features and skin color.

Alma 3:4 – And the Amlicites were distinguished from the Nephites, for they had marked themselves with red in their foreheads after the manner of the Lamanites.

The fact that haplo group x is a rare genetic marker supports the Book of Mormon narrative so are native American traditions of killing off a caucasian race of Indian.

The haplogroup x Caucasian dna marker might be presented in several George Caitlyn Native American portraits. This is assuming that the Native American chiefs and individuals have no European admixture of the 18^th and 19^th century when the portrait was painted in the 19^th century.

George Caitlin painted several Native American portraits to include these eight portraits shown below.