STONG EVIDENCE
AGAINST
WALAM OLUM

UNMASKING THE WALAM OLUM: A 19th CENTURY HOAX, by Davud N Oestreicher
Bulletin of the Archaeological Socciety of New Jersey, No. 49 & 50, 1994 & 1995

PART I-UNRAVELING A FRAUD: INTRODUCTION (continued)

... Historical Background ,,,

Amid all the hyperbole arises the question of how the Delaware themselves regard the Walam Olum. ... In fact, in all the extensive primary literature about the Delaware during the last four centuries there is not a single reference to the Walam Olum. (p, 2)

... The statement by the late Delaware elder Winnie Poolaw in The Red Record that "The Walam Olum is like our Bible". (McCutchen 1993:4), may well have been her opinion in 1980 after learning of its existence from McCutchen or other investigators, but in a taped interview made but five years earlier, she clearly denies ever having heard of it. (p. 2)

For a document purporting to contain the most important record of North American Indian origins-a saga which one would expect to be as revered by the Lenape as the Bible, Koran, and Upanishads are to their respective believers-the silence in the record is baffling and astonishing. (p. 2)

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