Lamanite ferocity

They were a wild, and ferocious, and a blood–thirsty people, believing in the tradition of their fathers, which is this—Believing that they were driven out of the land of Jerusalem because of the iniquities of their fathers, and that they were wronged in the wilderness by their brethren, and they were also wronged while crossing the sea;

From section: Zeniff’s Reign in Lehi–Nephi and Shilom

From page: Recolonization of the Land of Nephi

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