There has been a lot of controversy recently about Middle Eastern DNA having been found amongst Cherokee. Look it up. Some of the sites discussing it are fringe, but there has been a lot of backpeddling and headscratching over it.
This doesn’t tie in with Lamanites but it is curious.
Ah I just posted on this, sorry to have another thread going on a similar subject.
I have felt like many of the maps that people have tried to make, to place bom cities and lands into real world or modern day geography are a bit of a stretch. But I’ve also felt that the bom people could easily be a very small group relatively, hardly related to the American Indians as we know them today.