Mormons are also taught that Native Americans are a lost tribe of Israel, one branch cursed with dark skin for their sin, and that all humans have the potential to become godlike.

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The faith's fastest growth has been in Latin America where native Americans warm to the Mormon teaching that they descend from a lost tribe of Israel, and the Roman Catholic church is often too stretched, or ideologically divided, to feed its notional flock.

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At a wake held by colleagues in Beirut on Monday evening for Anthony, who was buried in his ancestral hometown in southern Lebanon the day Marie died, we agreed that our odd profession is a sort of transnational tribe which had lost one - now two - of its exemplary figures, the very best.

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If the cost of cigarettes is roughly equivalent in the local Mom and Pop store as it is on the reservation, the incentive to travel to Seneca Nation (or other tribe) territory is arguably lost.

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