Do you find the name First Voices interesting?  We hope that you do since it involves the past, present and future of the First Nations of the Americas.

We have been fascinated with the name ourselves when it came to us in the planning stages of this journal. After considering the title we were drawn to several quotations from the ancient records translated in 1829 by the power of the Great Spirit. It was printed and presented to the world as the Book of Mormon. This record contains the history of those people the Europeans discovered here in the Americas.

As you read below the title it says, “in the land of their first inheritance. . .” (Mosiah 10:13). Putting aside for the moment any discussion of where the natives of this land came from or how they got to the Americas we are told in these ancient records that the Great Spirit promised this land to them over 3,000 years ago.  North, Central and South America are the lands promised to the First Nations people in these records as well as Biblical records. “The blessings of thy father have revailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:” (Genesis 49:26 Jacob speaking prophetically to his son Joseph).


The reality in our mind is that this land was covenanted to the First Nation peoples and one day it will be theirs again as the Great Spirit has promised. Secondly, we are prompted to consider the voice of those people who have gone on before us. “I speak unto you as the voice of one crying from the dust . . .” (2Nephi 33:13) It seems strange that we would literally hear a voice speaking from the dust but it is a powerful event when we do have that experience. What is it exactly? Do we not hear our ancestors speak in the wind? Do we not hear their voices in the ancient teachings?

Have you ever considered the fact that unknown to us that there was a written history of the ancestors of the natives of the Americas?  Why would that be so unlikely?  Let us consider for a moment another example -- the Dead Sea scrolls.  Much of what was seen on the parchments discovered in the 1940's verified Biblical writings of the ancient Israelite prophets.  The Great Spirit has never changed through the ages of time; neither has the fact that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world as the Messiah.  Please read the material on this site with an open mind and a prayer in your heart and see if the Great Spirit will not show you the truth of all things..