Converted Lamanites find a home among the Nephites

Because the converted Lamanites were being killed by the wicked
Lamanites (and they wouldn't take up arms to defend themselves), Ammon
suggested to the Lamanite king that they ask the Nephites to live
among them. The Lamanite king agreed if this is what the Lord
desired. When Ammon and his brothers put the idea before Alma and the
chief judge of the Nephites, the chief judge sent a proclamation to
the people to see what they wanted. It was decided to give them a
place of inheritance in the land of Jershon, by the east sea, south of
Bountiful. A Nephite army was set between the converts and the
Lamanites to protect the converts.

In our day we have similar situations in Israel and Mexico, but the
politicians have handled them quite differently. This situation was
unique because the Nephites were given an opportunity to decide
whether to give the Lamanite converts a homeland. Because of their
goodness, they decided to give them the land of Jershon.

Read more at http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/27
Artwork shows the Lamanite converts (the Anti-Nephi-Lehites) burying
their weapons.