Chapter 1: The Mystery of America’s Past

America
The Untold Story
By K. Duane Erickson, BMS

America is an unusual land. Most all other lands of the world can trace their history back for thousands of years, why not America?

Even those people that Columbus found living here were at a loss-and still are-as to where they came from. Even their legends, which are just that, do not begin to give us a clue. Those who were living here at the time of Columbus really had no written history-just a few pictures on rock walls scattered throughout the country that even they could not read.

Why don’t they have more information? We call them “Indians,” and they have even adopted this name for themselves even though they have their various tribal names. They have no relationship to the true people of India.

This land is covered with places having “Indian” names. These names have been passed on for generations. In fact most of these names in use today in America are names we, the newcomers, have adopted from those who were living here before Columbus. Just how and when do names of places change?

In their legends, some say that their forefathers came from across the many waters from another land, but they have no proof and they do not even know from which land they actually came. Why?

Now we are finding out that thousands of these Indian names being used, especially in the United States, have Hebrew and/or Egyptian meanings. Some are actually Hebrew names. This is even a surprise to the so-called Indians, and they cannot explain this, nor do they know the meanings of these names. Again, why?

Ever since the early Americans started moving onto this land, interesting artifacts have been found. Many have been excavated from mounds that were left by an earlier people. Many are just found in the process of farming the fields. These artifacts are as foreign to the present Indians as they are to these new Americans. Neither can decipher them. Who created them?

Why can’t the Indians just pick up these artifacts and read them to us? There is a real mystery about this, when a people living on the land cannot tell us accurately about there past.

Just what happened on this land from 1492 A.D. back to the beginning of man, almost 5500 years? Was this just an untouched land, like a planet in the sky? Was Columbus the discoverer, or was he just the last to discover the land. My ancestors were here 492 years before Columbus, and at that time, the people were savage-like. There was not a creative race of people like those found in Central America by Cortez.

It has now been about 500 years from the time Columbus landed and the white race began to take over this land. Learned people of the world have since been trying to. make some sense of what had taken place. We have given them enough time to piece the puzzle together and still nothing fits. It’s time we get some answers for ourselves.

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