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The Walam Olum, also known as the "Red Score," is a controversial set of symbols and pictographs that purport to record the history and migrations of the Lenape, a Native American tribe that lived in the Northeastern United States. The name "Walam Olum" means "red record" in the Lenape language.
The Walam Olum was first discovered by a Dutch linguist named Constantine Rafinesque in 1836. Rafinesque claimed that the symbols were written in an ancient Lenape script and that they recorded the tribe's history and migrations over a period of several thousand years.
However, the authenticity of the Walam Olum has been the subject of much debate and scrutiny. Many scholars believe that the symbols are a hoax, and that Rafinesque fabricated the text in order to further his own career. There are several reasons for this skepticism.
First, the text of the Walam Olum does not match the known history and customs of the Lenape tribe. The symbols and pictographs depict events and rituals that are not consistent with what is known about the Lenape culture.
Second, the text of the Walam Olum contains several historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies. For example, the symbols depict the Lenape as having a highly advanced civilization that was in contact with other ancient cultures, such as the Egyptians and the Greeks. This is highly unlikely, given that the Lenape were a relatively small and isolated tribe that lived in the Northeastern United States.
Finally, there is no physical evidence to support the authenticity of the Walam Olum. There are no known artifacts or other materials that can be linked to the text, and the symbols themselves have not been found on any other objects or structures.
In conclusion, the Walam Olum is a controversial and mysterious text that has sparked much debate among scholars and researchers. While some believe that it is a genuine record of the Lenape tribe's history, the majority of evidence suggests that it is a hoax created by Constantine Rafinesque.
The Walam Olum: Part I
From Rafinesque's personal notes and a family legend, this Dr. Lumowaki, lowanaki tulpenaki elowaki tulapiwi linapiwi. Lappinup Kitanitowit manito manitoak. Ward, who had received them two years earlier from a Delaware patient. But the study revealed how problematic the Walum Olam was, and some prominent archaeologists began rejecting it. Trivial: of very little importance or value; insignificant Sentence: "It shall be a rong for anyone to lead a lord into trivial affairs. Owiniwak angelatawiwak chichankwak wemiwak.
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Pictographs: is a picture or symbol standing for a word or group of words Sentence: "Originally it consisted of a long series of pictographs explaining the origin of the Delaware people such as a result of the actions of a manito, or spirit. The 1950s were a turning point. Truly the manitos were active and kindly 17. Hitherto the Bald Eagle band had been the pipe bearer, 2. Oestricher believes he might have been inspired by, and reacting to, the 1830 claim by Joseph Smith, founder of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of finding golden plates inscribed in Egyptian and saying Indians and Mound Builders were the descendants of Israelites. Shukand eli-kimi mekenikink wakon powako init'ako.
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Walam Olum
It told how the Lenape entered the New World, overcame a Midwestern mound building people, and continued eastward, giving rise to the Algonquian-speaking tribes. Stephen Williams and David Browman. Those of the north agreed, Those of the east agreed. It is the oldest written record of people in North America and dates back to before 1600 B. In its present form. Oestricher went to the right sources, Rafinseque's original papers and the Delaware themselves, and presented his results in his 1995 Rutgers University doctoral dissertation and in a popular article in Natural History in 1996.
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Maskanako gishi penatiwelendamep lennowak owini palliton. Oestreicher in "Unmasking the Walam Olum: A 19th Century Hoax. In 1954, a multidisciplinary team of scholars from the Walum Olum Painted Sticks , and was interpreted for Walum Olum convey an archaic atmosphere that surely predates European Influence. A few writers, who have studied the sixth chapter, have the opinion that the recorded events are authentic. Manito-dasin mokol-wichemap, Palpal payat payat wemichemap. Catalogue of exhibition, Scarsdale Historical Society.
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The Walam Olum: Part II
The story line resembles one in Rafinesque's Ancient History, or Annals of Kentucky 1824 , which says the Lenape were a refugee group fleeing after the fall of "Oghuzian Empire. Eluwi-chitanesit eluwi takauwesit, elowi chiksit, elowichik delsinewo. Perhaps, says Oestricher, lack of money played a role. All this took place of old on the earth, beyond the great tide-water, at the first. Other Delaware tribes are adamant that the Walam Olum is a white man's hoax.
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The Walam Olum: Part III
Milap netami gaho owini gaho. The narrator was probably one of the native chiefs or priests, who had spent his life in the Ohio and Indiana towns of the Lenape, and who, though with some knowledge of Christian instruction, preferred the pagan rites, legends, and myths of his ancestors. Although the invasion eventually succeeded, the Talamatan later became hostile, but were soon subdued, and a further long period of consolidation began. Gattamin netami mitzi nijini nantine'. Akolaki shawanaki, kitshinaki shabiyaki.
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Tulapit menapit Nanabotish maskaboush owinimokom linowimokom. Nguttichin lowaniwi, Nguttichin wapaniwi, Agamunk topanpek Wulliton epannek. All had cheerful knowledge, all had leisure, all thought in gladness. The robbers, the snakes, the evil men, the stone men. Chikonapi akhonapi makatapi assinapi.
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The Walam Olum: Part IVa
Another theory is that people could have taken a sea route along the Canadian coast to bypass the ice sheets. Shawaniwaen chilili, wapaniwaen tamakwi. The Walam Olum demonstrates the damage that hoaxes and fakes can inflict. All of these reprints were more or less inaccurate and incomplete, and it remained for Brinton to publish the complete After sifting the evidence as to its authenticity, Brinton concludes p. Wtenkolawil shinaking sakimanep wapagokhos. Then, over many years, Rafinesque edited the written Lenape sounds using the English translation and other sources of Lenape words.
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Walam Olum, Tribal Chronicle
The Walam Olum: Part II 1. The third chapter is a story of migration across ice. Sherwin's epic eight volumes of T he Viking and the Red Man, 1940-1954 has over 15,000 comparisons of Algonquin and Old Norse phrases. Barnhart shows that Squier's fieldwork and interpretive contributions to archaeology and anthropology continued over the next three decades. That seems Iroquoian- not that it's impossible for the Lenape to have taken some ideas from Iroquoian peoples into their stories, but it doesn't feel like it matches how Mediwiwin religion tends to work. It is now believed that this migration took place between ten and fifteen thousand years ago. Drawing from Arapaho, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware, Maliseet, Menominee, Meskwaki, Miami-Illinois, Mi'kmaq, Naskapi, Ojibwe, Passamaquoddy, Potawatomi, and Shawnee, the collection gathers a host of respected and talented singers, storytellers, historians, anthropologists, linguists, and tribal educators, both Native and non-Native, from the United States and Canada--all working together to orchestrate a single, complex performance of the Algonquian languages.
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The source of the document, as well as aspects of the Delaware text, and some of the historical episodes have been called into question. When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities of the American West. Wemilo kolawil sakima lissilma. Still, many scholars took the Walam Olum as genuine, if historically inaccurate. He made the sun, the moon, the stars.
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