“The Lamanites [Native Americans], through transgression, became a loathsome, ignorant and filthy people, and were cursed with a skin of darkness … yet, they have the promise, if they will believe, and work righteousness, that not many generations shall pass away before they shall become a white and delightsome people.”

Millennial Star – Volume 14  – no. 27, “Division and Unity” (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 28 Aug 1852), 418.