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TEACH the LENAPE HISTORY
Feb. 26, 2021
Catholics in North America, who were speaking Norse, created the LENAPE HISTORY.
In the 14th century, the Catholic historians used a media of self-verified stanzas.
The words of each stanza were carefully chosen to have, at least, one alliteration and one rhyme in every six syllables. The historian spoke the memorized stanzas to the Lenape young people so they could learn the stanzas of their history.
The Lenape historian used pictographs as a cue to help the learners remember the correct stanza. The pictographs were scratched onto the thin wooden stick about as long and wide as a human thumb. The etched pictographs were enhanced by red ochre.
The pictograph cues are important, but the stanza had to have the verification of the sounds, which included a “beat,” like a pow-wow drum and the required alliterations and rhymes. The surviving pictographs cue a spoken stanza, which is self-verifying only if the language is Old Norse.
Rafinesque, 1836, published the American Nations. This publication included the Walam Olum, a migration and narrative of the Lenape. “Walam Olum” is mispronounced Old Norse words, “Maalan Aarum.” Maalan Aarum means, “Engraved Years.”
Despite the English atempt to suppress the Catholics by omission, fhe Walam Olum is reliable history created by Lenape historians in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
Daniel G. Brinton published The Lenape and Their Legends in 1885, which saved Rafinesque’s effort. The surviving 184 stanzas and pictograph cues are now preserved as the Walam Olum on the Sacred Text web site.
Reider T. Sherwin, 1940-1956, published The Viking and the Red Man. The Old Norse origin of the Algonquin language. Sherwin illustrated that all known Algonquin words had evolved from Old Norse words.
I (Myron) and Craig Judge used Sherwin’s compilation of Algonquin=Old Norse to decipher the Maalan Aarum stanzas. Thirty-eight of the stanzas describe eighteen episodes of the Lenape History. The eighteen episodes detail Lenape history from the beginning in Greenland to the Kensington Rune Stone episode in 1362.
The eighteen episodes are more than enough for a full semester of LENAPE history. Each episode has a Quick Response (QR) code, which can be purchased from the Shawnee Appalachian Tribe. Teachers may then copy the QR code codes onto paper to pass out as assignments for each student.
The eighteen episodes should be studied one episode per week. Also added to each episode is information about an ancient artifact and Old Norse words. Answers are provided.
There are over 660 Lenape posts. LENAPE LAND is the KEY LINK.
The Christians walked from Greenland to New York in America. But they went a long way around, through the Dakotas and Missoui then back to New York. They walked into New York a century before the English invaded.
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When the English came to America they were surpised to find Catholics already on the American shore.
The English created MYTHS*. Then they suppressed knowledge of Catholics. They omitted that knowledge from the printing presses.
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The 18 sets of stanzas describe episodes during 1363 years of Lenape history.
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The artifact and the words may have been used during the episode.
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Then give your students the Link to the ANSWERS to the stanzas under discussion. Follow with more discussion of the answers before assigning the next episode.
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The LENAPE were Christians, who spoke Norse.
"LEN" means "PURE."
"APE" means "ABIDE."
Old Norse has reversed syntax, so, in English, the word is "Abide (with the) PURE."
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Lenape tribes still live in New Jersey, New York and near Ottawa, Canada.
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Discuss the stanzas, artifacts, and words with your students whenever you can.
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