LENAPE HISTORY OF North AMERICA,
AD 1355
After
him, Snow Bird was chief.
He spoke of the south.
.
Wtenk
nekama sakimanep
chilili shawaniluen.
chilili shawaniluen.
(Original recorded sounds.)
.
Where
do Snow Birds spend the winter?
.
What
type of “hair do” does
this Snowbird have?
.
What is the
pictograph trying to tell us?
AD 1356
That our fathers
should possess it
should possess it
by scattering abroad.
.
.
Wokenapi
nitaton
wullaton apakchikton.
(Original recorded sounds.)
___________________________
.
What
HAIR DOs do the heads wear?
.
What
might those HAIR Dos mean?
.
Why
would thousands
of LENAPE
of LENAPE
have to scatter?
.
Why
couldn’t they push through the people
south of them?
south of them?
.
AD 1537
Snow
Bird went south,
White
Beaver went east.
.
Shawaniwaen chilili,
wapaniwaen tamakwi.
(Original recorded sounds.)
Where,
exactly,
did Snowbird’s group go?
did Snowbird’s group go?
.
What
might
White Beaver mean?
White Beaver mean?
.
Where,
exactly, did
White Beaver’s group go?
White Beaver’s group go?
.
How
do we know;
EXACTLY,
EXACTLY,
As far as I can tell, (referring to the Viking Waterway) Snow Bird’s group most likely rowed up the Nelson River, across Lake Winnipeg, up the Red and Buffalo Rivers, past Moorehead and Stinking Lake, then wintered at Stakke Lake. Next spring they navigated up the Ottertail River and over the great divide at Fergus Falls, eventually settling around Sioux Falls on the Big Sioux River. (We know they were at Kensington, Minnesota in 1362, because the Kensington Runestone incident is recorded in the Maalan Aruum).
ReplyDeleteDrought and the invasive Wolf Pack tribe then led them to seek shelter at Niagara and Mystery caves in Minnesota.
White Beaver went east, perhaps up the Nottoway River, across Lake Matagami up the Bell River, then over the range into the St. Lawrence waterway, settling and exploring throughout the Great Lakes region and ending ending up mainly settling in New England, Virginia and West Virginia. These regions were named “Norumbegue” on early maps, a corruption of Norveca “The Road North:”(Meaning Norway), Further south the Lenape’s Shawnee kin (whom had left Greenland hundreds of years before) settled.
(Also probably New York State and Pennsylvania).
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