WAS COLUMBUS FIRST?

There is a statue of Columbus in the California Capital building.  There is a magnificent statue of Columbus in front of a major tourist attraction in San Francisco.

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Of course, there is Columbus, the capital city of Ohio.  There is Columbia University in New York, where in may 2013 the American students petitioned for a plague to recognize the Lenape.

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Columbus, whose original journal is lost, has pages, maybe chapters of text in every history book.  Counting the books written about Columbus is a taunting task, better left alone.

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Every body in the world knows that Columbus was the first European to discover North America.  

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Except In 1364, over a century BEFORE Columbus, the author of the Inventio Fortunatae wrote of

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"...nearly 4000 people who 'entered the indrawing seas [beyond Greenland] who never returned.'"

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Nearly four thousand Norse Lenape, who were Christians, had entered into [Hudson Strait] before 1360 and never returned!

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Today there are eight bands of Norse Lenape still living in North America.  The first two pages of Google results show that Lenape have a page in Wikipedia, an Online history, a Regional High School District, a middle school, an elementary school, a Life Style presenter, a talking dictionary, a national museum, a re-created village,  a valley, a lake, a golf course, a chamber ensemble, a porcelain products business, a real estate development and a pizza parlor.

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Besides all that, the Norse Lenape ethics became the model for the principles that the Boy Scouts must exhibit to earn one of their highest honors, the Order of the Arrow.

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Yet, with the exception of the Lenape sale of land to William Penn, the Dutch massacres of the Lenape in New York, and the Presbyterian massacre of the Lenape at Conestoga,  the word "Lenape" hardly appears in history books.  The words "Norse Lenape" may be impossible to find in any book.
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Google estimates that 117 "Columbus" words are  found for every "Lenape" word that is found.  The "Columbus" word is found 1,438 times for every "Norse Lenape" phrase found.

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Why did Columbus get so much recognition

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the Norse Lenape get so little?

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HYPOTHESIS

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“Columbus was the first European to discover North America” is a pervasive paradigm, which was adopted by 17^th century English in America to cover up their fragrant violations of the Ten Commandments.

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When the English invaded North America Norse Lenape occupied the land wherever the English landed.  Lenape means to "abide with the pure." The Lenape heritage was Norse.

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The Norse Lenape in Greenland had been instructed to be Christians by Roman Catholic Bishops for over two centuries from 1121 to 1346.  The Norse Lenape knew the Ten Commandments, Christ's guidelines to love one another, and other aspects of the Catholic religion.  
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The Norse Lenape behavior in North America makes a person suspect that they knew the Gospel of John the best. The Norse Lenape not only knew their religion, they lived the religious principles in isolation without having to engage in warfare. Peaceful resolution of conflict without violence became an expected behavior.

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When the Norse Lenape were forced to migrate to America, they left behind remains of eighteen churches.  During the migration the Norse Lenape lost contact with organized religion.  Then, in North America, the Norse Lenape religion was passed from generation to generation through the parents. 

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These circumstances effectively separated the Norse Lenape "Church" from "State."  To the English, the Norse Lenape did not appear to have an organized religion.  But, centuries later, after 1800, the parent transmitted religion would withstand persistent missionary efforts by Jesuits and Methodists to convert Norse Lenape Christians to be Christians of an organized church.

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The English invaders of North America had not yet separated Church from State.  Those invaders killed, raped, stole, committed false witness, and coveted Lenape possessions.

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So, when the English finally realized that the Norse Lenape behaved like Christians, the English promoted the “Columbus was first” myth.  The belief was that if Columbus was first, there could be no Norse in North America.  If there were no Norse, there could not be any people with Catholic behavior.   That belief was not valid, but was easily believed by Europeans, who already had a similar paradigm in their heads. 
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The English in England were writing the books.  They were told bogus information by the English in America.  Columbus was first, which was not a fact, became a pervasive academic paradigm.  The teachers, authorities in the classroom, became the unquestioned authorities of early american history. Any evidence that the paradigm was not valid could be and was ignored.  

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There was only one university, Harvard, in North America in the 17^th century.  Harvard was located in Boston.  In 1676 the English in Boston exterminated the Norse Lenape who had become "Praying Indians" by conforming to the Puritan rites.

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“Columbus was first” was promoted as a paradigm by the educational academia of emerging universities of the 18^th century.  Today nearly every teacher teaches that paradigm.  The paradigm is carried in nearly every body’s head.  Most people in the general public, especially teachers, are guardians of the paradigm.

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Thus any evidence that Columbus was not the first European to come to North America is not allowed into the history and other educational books.  This adherence to the Columbus was first paradigm by Social Science educators has caused a profound distortion in the understanding of the historical events of North America.
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Effectively any piece of evidence or newly discovered ancient testimony about North America older than 1492 is not allowed into the academic recorded history.  Students, who do not search in the other places like libraries or museums, learn and live by the paradigm that Columbus was first. 
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Unfortunately these students, most of whom hate history, become parents serving on the review boards of the school curriculums.  Their primary motivation is to ensure that the history taught should be the same as the history they learned, like mathematics and reading.  The Columbus was first paradigm is locked into the school curriculum to teach the same history to another 4 million kids every year.
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In the physical science section of the same school building students are taught to look at the data of their experiments and to make logical decisions.
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Imagine the results if the physical science training could be applied to history with all the data on the table.  For example:

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Compare Columbus was first to each one of the following items in the list of evidence below.  If any item of evidence on the right is valid, than the Columbus was first paradigm is not valid.
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If the Columbus was first paradigm is not valid, then what actions would result in the quickest restoration of an accurate account of past events?

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WHICH IS MORE VALID

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Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found 30 whetstones in Canada.  Whetstones are known to be indicators of Vikings.

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Columbus was first or Hilgren, 2011, found a broken whetstone near Fish Lake MN.  There was an iron core in the Whetstone.  The composite Whetstone had been made in Norway.

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Columbus was first or Hilgren, 2011, used a metal detector to show that the whetstone, which was the only artifact found beneath the Kensington Rune Stone, had a metal core also.

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Columbus was first or the Kensington Rune stone was inscribed with Swedish runes including the date of 1362 in western Minnesota.

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Columbus was first or the Maalan Aarum stanza, 4.17, describes the same “ten mates dead” episode inscribed on the Kensington rune stone.

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Columbus was first or there are two (2) whetstone rivers in South Dakota, which indicate that Vikings had been there.

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Columbus was first or the Verendrye brothers, c1725, found a stone with runes inscribed on it on the banks of the Missouri.  There were similar stones under Cairns up the Missouri to Mandan ND.  This evidence indicates  a Viking presence on the Missouri.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found strands of cordage, similar to that woven in Greenland.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found wood in a treeless land, especially tally sticks, and wood with squire nail holes, and iron stains.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found Dorset carvings of what looked to be European faces,

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found spindles used to make cordage.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found alarge rectangular house.  Rectangular houses are Viking signatures in the Arctic.  They are the best construction to hold tuft or sod blocks for roofs.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found drill holes in bone.  Vikings carried augers in their tool kits.

Columbus was first or Sutherland, 2012, found Old World Black Rat pelt.

TO BE CONTINUED