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The FROZEN TRAIL to Merica
FOREWORD
The Norse, descendants of Vikings, in Greenland "vanished" during the Little Ice Age, which made the Arctic a poor place to survive. Where did they go?
Eleven Algonquin-speaking tribes of America, Leni Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, Nanticoke, Conoy, Mahigan, Cree, Ojibwa, Abenaki, Wampanoag and Cheyenne all have traditions of their ancestors coming to Northeast America by crossing over Davis Strait about the time of Little Ice Age. Where did they come from?
In 1836 a white man, Rafinesque, published The America Nations, a book about America before Columbus. The book contained a legend called Walam Olum, which is a history of Leni Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, and Mahigan tribes told by pictograms and accompanying verses. Walam Olum, chapter 3, shows Norse (Vikings) walking across Davis Strait in the Arctic in the Little Ice Age to a new land in Labrador, Ungava, and James Bay in Canada. These pictographs where made soon after the Little Ice Age.
Is the Walam Olum a hoax?
The Frozen Trail to Merica focuses on the three questions above and the feat of Vikings, who first became Norse who survived the Arctic and then became the Algonquin ancestors of Leni Lenape (Delaware), the Shawnee, and the Mahigan. Other Algonquin-speaking tribes, the Cree, Ojibwa, Abenaki, Wampanoag, and Cheyenne had arrived in America earlier. The Ojibwa lived on the North shores of the Great Lakes and may have lived in Michigan. The Cree lived in Labrador. The Abenaki lived west of Newfoundland. The Wampanoag lived in Massachsetts and Connecticut. They provided support to Leni Lenape, Shawnee, and Mahigan bands ias told by Walam Olum story, who are on their way to Michigan via James Bay, Labrador, and Ungava pennisula,.
All of the Algonquin-speaking tribes have dialects indicating different arrival times. The Cree and Ojibwa have oral histories of arriving in Newfoundland, Labrador in Canada and in Connecticut earlier than the Abenaki and Wampanoag. There is evidence of Vikings, and other Europeans, traveling to copper mines in Michigan across the Ungava pennisula..
Maps are included to provide a scale for the panorama of places, Greenland, Ungava, Davis Strait, James Bay, , and Canada. Events in related locations, the Arctic, Connecticut, the Newport Tower, Newfoundland, and Michigan are discussed.
A tower still stands in Newport RI. Was this tower in Newport erected at the command of King Haakon, IV? King Haakon IV ruled Greenland and may have ruled, at one time, all of Newfoundland, Labardor and eastern Canada as far west as James Bay. In America his kingdom may have included Connecticut, Mighigan, and Massachusetts. The Newport tower appears to be the remains of a lavabo in a Norse Church, probably built before the Norse walked the Frozen Trail
Come. Walk The Frozen Trail seeking answers. Is Walam Olum a real history? Did the Leni Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, Nanticoke, Conoy, Mahigan, Cree, Ojibwa, Abenaki, Wampanoag, and Cheyenne ancestors really come across Davis Strait from Greenland? Did the Norse (Vikings) from Greenland really vanish?
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