People in the Book of Mormon who were descendants of Jared, his brother, and their friends (Ether 1: 33-41). They were led by God from the Tower of Babel to the Americas, a promised land (Ether 1: 42-43; 2-3; 6: 1-18). Although their nation had at one time millions of people, they were all destroyed by civil war brought on by wickedness (Ether 14-15).