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LittleBlue

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7. Probably the often-used "lost tribes of Israel"

Reply to GiaGiovanni (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 09:20 PM

Jul 2013

Been claimed by numerous kooky Christian sects for hundreds of years.

IIRC the Church of Latter Day Saints claim the Native Americans are a lost tribe.

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