In 2006 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly rewrote a sentence in its own scripture about DNA and Native American ancestry — years before anyone was told why.
Jess and Hannah trace the 1981 introduction naming Lamanites as the "principal ancestors" of Native Americans, the DNA research pointing to East Asian origin via the Bering Land Bridge, and the 2014 Gospel Topics essay explaining a change nobody announced. They cover Thomas Murphy's near-excommunication, Simon Southerton's 2005 excommunication, the Indian Student Placement Program, and George P. Lee, the first Native American General Authority, excommunicated for objecting to the retreat. The Church can edit a word. It rarely tells the people it taught directly that it was wrong.
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