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Suggested further reading:

1) Origins of the American Indians: European Concepts, 1492-1729 by Lee Eldridge Huddleston, 1967
A scholarly book on the theories of American Indians coming to America. It is valuable for analyzing diffusionist claims.

2) Native American Origins Special Section, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 146, Issue 4, December 2011
Uses genetics to answer who the first Americans were and how ice age humans settled the last large uninhabited landmasses.

3) A Brief History of Piedras Negras as Told by the Ancient Maya, History Revealed in Maya Glyphs, by Mark Pitts, 2011
This book begins in 4691 BC with a very early ruler and ends in the 9th century AD with the collapse of the city. You will learn the history by reading the very words of the ancient Mayas, from their own glyphs.

4) Guatemala Memory of Silence, Tz'inil na'tab'al, Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification: Conclusions and Recommendations, 1999
This report documents and details the violence, horror and tragedy of Guatemala during the period from 1962 to 1996. More than 200,000 people were killed or disappeared at the hands of the government. Most of them were indigenous Mayans.

Jim C
If you read the BofM and history books carefully, you'll find many evidences that the family of Lehi was a very small family of the inhabitants of MesoAmerica. By the time of Jacob, there was much inter-marrying going on with the locals. It is not known how many current remnant peoples of MesoAmerica descended from Lehi, but there has never been sufficient testing o rule out ALL living persons as NOT having DNA from Lehi. I suppose you are the one person on earth who has a sample of Lehi's DNA. Please share it. You may get the ball rolling on a very important study. You seem very quick to dismiss all evidence that exists, except the one (DNA) that is still missing. One day, if they do discover the DNA, and some studies claim they have done so, will you just ignore their findings, or will your baptism be forthcoming?

Lets draw a parallel with Sorenson's logic: The Lord of the Rings describes mountains and rivers. There are mountains and rivers in Europe that look like the descriptions written in the Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings has stories of kings and people that war with each other. Europe had kings and people that warred with each other. Therefore, the Lord of the Rings is true.