Jacob 3:5-7; 2 Ne. 3:3; 4:5; 30:3-6; Hel. 6:36; 7:24; 15:7-11; Book of Mormon Prophecies, Warner, pp. 116-117
“At the time that the Prophet Joseph Smith translated this Book of Mormon, I suppose the impression was general, as it is today, [1884] that the Indians were a perishing race, that they would soon disappear from the face of the land… . Joseph found … that we as a race and the nation to which we belong, should not have power to destroy the Indians. This was a most remarkable statement to make when we consider where Joseph was brought up, and the circumstances surrounding him.” (George Q. Cannon, Journal of Discourses 25:123)