A reference to the council’s chairman.
See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. 1844.
This may refer to the belief among many Latter-day Saints that both they and American Indians were literal descendants of Jacob (Israel). In his statement Miller may have meant that while there might have been some Latter-day Saints who were not actual descendants of Israel, all of the American Indians were. (See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 10 Mar. 1844; and Pratt, “Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles,” 2–3.)
[Pratt, Parley P.] Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints. New York: Samuel Brannan and Parley P. Pratt, 1845.