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1 Conference Report of the 132nd Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 6-8, 1962, pp. 111-115.
Later published separately as Polynesians Came From America! (Salt Lake City: Deserei Book Co., 1962).
2 Alan Howard, "Polynesian Origins and Migrations: A Review of Two Centuries of Speculation and Theory," in Polynesian Culture History: Essays Presented in Honor of Kenneth P. Emory, ed. by Genevieve Highland et al. (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1967), pp. 45-102.
3 Andrew Sharp, Ancient Voyages in Polynesia (Auckland: Paul’s Book Arcade, 1963), pp. 123-128;
Patrick C. McCoy, "Easter Island," in The Prehistory of Polynesia, ed. by Jesse D. Jennings (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979), pp. 143-145;
Michael Levison, et al., The Settlement of Polynesia; A Computer Simulation (Minneapolis, Minnesota: The University of Minnesota Press, 1973), pp. 46-48.
4 Glen Barclay, A History of the Pacific from Stone Age to Present Day (London: Sigdwick & Jackson, 1978), p. 3.
Peter S. Bellwood states at the beginning of his book, The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (London: Thames and Hudson 1978), p. 19:
5 Sharp, p. 125.
6 William Howells, "Physical Anthropology, in Jennings (ed.), pp. 271-285.
7 Scientific and genetic reasoning on Polynesian blood type comparisons may be found in R. T. Simmons, and J. J. Graydon, "A Blood Group Genetical Survey in Eastern and Central Polynesians," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 15:357-366;
R. T. Simmons, "Blood Group Genes in Polynesians and Comparisons with Other Pacific Peoples," Oceania, 32(1962): 198-210;
E. Goldschmidt, "An Interpretation of Polynesian Blood-Group Gene Frequencies," in Pacific Science Association, Abstracts of Symposium Papers, Tenth Pacific Science Congress, (1961) p. 99.
8 Bellwood, p. 36.
D. E. Yen, The Sweet Potato and Oceania: an Essay in Ethnobotany. (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Bulletin Number 236, 1974).
Barclay, p. 7
9 D. D. Brand. "The Sweet Potato: An Exercise in Methodology," in Man Across the Sea, ed. by C. L. Riley et al. (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1971), pp. 343-365.
10 Levision, p. 47.
11 Barclay, p. 9.
12 Barclay, p. 6.
Bellwood, pp. 16-65 and Peter S. Bellwood, Man’s Conquest of the Pacific (Auckland: Collins, 1978), pp. 296-423;
Jennings, pp. 1-60, 249-379
13 Jennings, pp. 2-3, 219;
Richard Shutler Jr., "Pacific Island Radio-Carbon Dates: An Overview," in Studies in Oceanic Culture History, ed. by R. C. Green and Marion Kelly, Pacific Anthropological Records, vol. 2, no. 12 (Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, Bishop Museum, 1971).
14 Paul R. Cheesman, Early America and the Polynesians (Provo, Utah: Promised Land Publications, 1975);
Jerry K. Loveland, "Hagoth and the Polynesian Tradition," Brigham Young University Studies, 17(Autumn 1976): 59-73;
Norman Douglas, "The Sons of Lehi and the Seed of Cain: Racial Myths in Mormon Scripture and Their Relevance to the Pacific Islands," The Journal of Religious History, 8(June 1974):90-104;
Elwin W. Jensen, "Polynesians Descend from Lehi, According to the Statements of the Prophets," 1977.
15 "Louisa Barnes Pratt. Journal, in Heart Throbs of the West, compiled by Kate B. Carter (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1947), vol. 8, p. 273.
16 Jensen, pp. 1-10.
17 Liahona, The Elders’ Journal, vol. 17, no. 16-631, (3 February 1920), pp. 261-265.
18 "William A. Cole, Israel in the Pacific (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society, 1961), pp. 384 and 388.
19 Spencer W. Kimball, "Our Paths Have Met Again," Ensign, 5(December 1975):2-7.
20 Cheesman, p. 13.
21 Official Report of the Samoa Area Conference Held in Pago Pago and Apia, Samoa, February 15, 16, 17, 18, 1976 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1977), p. 15.
22 Official Report of the New Zealand Area Conference Held at Church College at Temple View, New Zealand, February 20, 21, and 22, 1976 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1977) p. 3.
23 Official Report of the Tonga Area Conference Held in the Liahona High School in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, February 24 and 25, 1976 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1977), pp. 3-4.
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