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Prince Madoc
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Date Posted: 10:24:19 11/24/05 Thu
In reply to:
nocolombo
's message, "Discovery of Reach Haven, long ago" on 05:14:22 11/24/05 Thu
Thank you, nocolombo, for including me in your post.
It was with steeped interest that I read your post about Vikings in the Reach Haven area. Considering the history of the North American continent, I wonder whether maybe not all the Vikings went back to Iceland in 1001 AD. Consider this:
When LaVendrye and his French furriers arrived in Central Canada in the 1730's, the Assiniboines told them, "There is a nation of white people like yourselves six day's journey from here." When they arrived in what is now North Dakota, they found not white people but what appeared to them to be "an amalgam of white and colored" people who had not only brown eyes and black hair like Native Americans but blue, green, grey and brown eyes and black, brown, red and straw-colored hair. They lived in nine fortified cities with palisades and moats, using bull-boats like only the Welsh used, and whereas all the surrounding tribes were hunters, the Mandan alone were farmers. The Mandan nation was the center of trade for the Plains Indians.
The meeting with the French was supposedly the first between the Mandan and whites.
Where did these blond-haired, blue-eyed Indians, the Mandan, come from?
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