In a chapter entitled “Genealogy in Hawaii”, Susa Young Gates affirmed the traditional belief that the natives of Hawaii were “originally Nephites”:
(Note.—We have good reason to know
that these people were originally Nephites, who came down in the “ships of
Hagoth” to adventure their fortunes in new and unknown islands of the
Ocean—Book of Alma 63:4-8.—Editor.) (Susa Young Gates, Surname Book and
Racial History: A Compilation and Arrangement of Genealogical and Historical
Data for Use by the Students and Members of the Relief Society of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [Salt Lake City: General Board of the
Relief Society, 1918], 235)