IN THE BOOK LOST TRIBES AND PROMISED LANDS ANTONIO MONTEZINOS GIVES HIS TESTIMONY ON HIS INTERACTION WITH THE SEMINOLE INDIANS APART OF THE LARGER

MUSKOGEE PEOPLE).

"UPON HEARING HER WORDS THEY ROSE, WENT OVER TO MONTEZINOS AND, TO HIS UTTER ASTONISHMENT, SAID: "SHEMA, YISROEL, ADONAI ELOHENU ADONAI EHOD" (HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE "J. THEY HAD RECITED, IN HEBREW, THE FUNDAMENTAL CREDO OF JUDAISM." "THEY TOLD HIM THAT THEY WERE THEMSELVES OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN, AND THAT THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH LIVED ON AN ISLAND NEARBY."

In other words it is the opinion of the author that the spaniards and other europeans of that time are incorrect. Yet in still the author in certain instances is not subjective, and so he provides the facts as to how people in history viewed the Jews, native americans and africans. Also how these groups identified themselves.