After the boat wreck the Lenape appear to have stayed or returned to James Bay. Sachem names appear to be an attempt to incorporate more information than just a man's name. Thus "White" might imply white snow, or white (or blonde) hair. "Owl" could imply a wise man. The pictograph shows a cape, which could imply a Bishop rank."
A first guess is that "White Owl" was a blonde haired Norse man, who functioned as a Bishop during the Lenape sojourn in a snowy land. He may have been a church man that came to James Bay with the Knudson rescue mission.
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