The HISTORY KICKSTARTER DENIED

The Virginia Company landed in Jamestown in AD 1607. They had promised the English population that the Company was going to convert the native people of America. Religious fervor was high in England, as it was in the rest of Europe.

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The Protestants in England were entering an era that would result in the beheading of a Catholic king. Part of the religious fervor for colonies in America was the belief that all people must be converted to Christianity before Christ would come again.

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 After they landed in AD 1607, the Virginia Company leaders quickly found out that the simple natives they expected to find were actually Norse Catholics, who called themselves “Lenape.”

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 The “Len” syllable was especially troublesome. All of the Germanic-speaking people in northern Europe knew that “Len” or “Ren” meant, “Pure” as in baptized to be “pure.”

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 The Virginia Company charter prohibited the Englishmen from settling wherever Christians were already settled. The Virginia Company leaders could have obeyed the charter and returned to England. But because most Englishmen in England believed that pagan people, who could be converted to hasten the coming of Christ, populated America, the Virginia Company leaders decided to deny that the Lenape/Norse Catholics had beaten them to America.

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 The Virginia Company destroyed the evidence. Then they suppressed the knowledge that Norse Catholics/Lenape were in America.

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 Lord Del la Warr secured the rights to the Virginia Company. In 1610 three hundred men, who were dressed in full, heavy armor and equipped with the latest flintlocks disembarked at James town. Their first objective was the “magnificent church” at Henrico.

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They marched thirty miles upriver to Henrico, while destroying all villages in their path. They murdered most of the young Lenape/Norse Catholics that they could catch.

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The Virginia Company leaders knew they were going to occupy a church. They may not have known that the church honored Roman Catholic Bishop Eric Gnuppson, nicknamed Henrico, who had brought the message of Christ to America hundreds of years earlier.

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Then began the English suppression of American history that has lasted for four centuries.

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In 1612 Samuel Argyle sailed a fourteen cannon frigate, loaded with marines, from Jamestown to Nova Scotia, which was a French colony, to attack CHURCHES.

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Among the 13th century Norse Catholic/Lenape churches destroyed was the one at Newport RI. The remains of that church are a burned out keep, which is similar to keeps in 19 northern European locations. The marines scattered the stones of the keep of the church at Boston.

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Only a few lines in obscure books tell of the five-year war of extermination and the attack on the churches.

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But the Virginia Company was not alone in the deception. In 1614 the royal men of King James I hired John Smith to sail up the Northeast coast of America from Norumbega to Nova Scotia. Then the King’s men made a map. They had young prince Charles, who was later beheaded, change the names of most places that had been known to sailors for a century.

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Anything “New” in Northeast America had had a Norse name before. (I.e. New England had been called Norumbega, [Norway]. Newport had been called Narragansett, [Narrow passage area]. Etc.)

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In AD 1620 the Pilgrims came to America and quickly learned that the Norse Catholics/Lenape were their landlords. 

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In 1630 the Puritans came to Boston. The Puritans learned that the Lenape/Norse Catholics were also along the Charles River, which had been called the Massachusetts River [mighty sea area] before the name switch. 

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The Puritans started two wars, which the Puritans called the Pequot and King Philip's wars. The English exterminated thousands of Lenape/Norse Catholics.

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 In prior conflicts among the Norse Catholics/Lenape, the common practice had been for each side to place their children, women, and old men into stockades for safety. The Lenape/Norse Catholic men met in force on open terrain to resolve their dispute. Both contending parties honored the stockades as no-conflict zones.

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But, in their wars, the Puritans fought by destroying the safety stockades. Then they proclaimed great victories. 

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[Francis Jennings wrote in the Invasion of America,"The Puritans did not find any savages. They made them.”]

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In the late 17th century, The Puritans had the only two printing presses in North America. The printers published material for the Protestant Sunday schools. The printers began a systematic suppression by omission. 

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When James II, a Catholic, became the King of England, he created the Dominion of New England over the American Colonies. Those colonies saw the Dominion as a Catholic administration wanting to take over the government of the colonies. 

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Suppression of knowledge of Lenape/Norse Catholics became institutionalized by omission of “Norse,” “Catholic,” and “Lenape” words in published literature.

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The systematic suppression by omission continues today.

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Canada has fired professor Patricia Sutherland for her prolific reporting of Norse artifacts. The Canadian Government has decided history begins at AD 1812.

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This action freezes all prior events in the self-serving political narrative written by the English. This action denies other people of North America their heritage and historic roles by eliminating all research, enquiry, and correction.

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Thereby the Canadian government condemns the descendants of Norse Catholics/Lenape to be treated as descendants of pagan savages, who, by English law of the 17th century, were declared not capable of ever being Christians!

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Systematic suppression by omission condemns millions of descendants of the Norse Catholics/Lenape in the United States to the same fate. Thus the descendants of the Lenape/Norse Catholics have not ever been free from prejudicial acts of repression in the land of freedom.

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In the 19th century the United States government, dominated by Anglo-Saxon men, drove Norse Catholics/Lenape west of the Mississippi. Then the U.S. military forced the Lenape/Norse Catholics to live in reservations on the unproductive lands in the west.

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In the 19th and 20th centuries the Scandinavians, who spoke a similar language and had similar DNA with the Norse Catholics/Lenape, were encouraged to settle the under populated lands of the Midwest. 

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The suppression by omission process had worked so well that most Scandinavians did realize that they were occupying the land where their far-removed kin had once lived.

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But a few Scandinavians did correctly interpret the evidence and the language left behind. They wrote books in the 19th and 20th centuries to inform the public that Norse had been in America before the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

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By that time the systematic suppression by omission process was so pervasive that those well researched books with true facts sank into the flood of many publications that were also omitted from the school curriculum.

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In the 20th century, the Scandinavians living in the heartland of America produced the materials, machines, and men that helped North America stop three dictators determined to rule the world.  In the process the Scandinavians helped save the homeland of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Today Scandinavian families are a major element of the vibrant society in the thriving heartland of America. Those Scandinavians, who may chose to come to the LENAPE/SCANDINAVIAN SYMPOSIUM, will make their decisions with the understanding that they will pay their own expenses because they can.

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The purpose of the LENAPE/SCANDINAVIAN Symposium is to make the educators aware that “Norse,” “Catholic” and “Lenape” words should never be omitted from the true American history. 

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The Symposium speakers hope to lay their knowledge about Lenape/Norse Catholics “on the public table.” They hope to encourage anthropologists, linguists, and historians to revise the academic curriculum so that students recognize that suppression by omission is an unpardonable sin that has distorted the true American history for four centuries.

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If these hopes are met, the true history of America will include the Lenape/Norse Catholic history.  Scandinavians may take pride in that history also.

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But the Norse Catholic/Lenape live on the unproductive land in the shadows of American civilization. Many Lenape/Norse Catholics do not have funds to travel to the LENAPE/SCANDINAVIAN SYMPOSIUM.

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This Kickstarter project will raise funds for Lenape/Norse Catholic travel expenses to the symposium. If you pledge, you will be helping us to begin to heal the effects of four centuries of suppression by omission.

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The funds to travel will be another small step in a long road to a true American history.   The Scandinavians and their LENAPE cousins hope to travel that road as equals headed toward the same goal.

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Your support would be greatly appreciated.

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Your name will be enrolled in the Lenape Legion.