Well, now that everyone is here.
I as much as I am historian, was a journalist, and am of 1/8 shawnee descent.
And that I have never claimed to be a spiritual guide
And that the people who usually shout at me are spiritual thieves who concoct
fake histories, but now I find you shoutring at me in an effort to thrown doubt on the traditional histories about the Andaste and Shawnee...
The Colonists policy of conquest has been to diviide and conquer.
Thus people within the Ohio Historical Society has been leading other native
peoples into claiming Shawnee remains in Ohio.
If you look back here, you can find my discussion with Oestriecher about his version of both Shawnee and Lenape histories- in particular his claim that the Lenape medewak did not exist, and his version of Shawnee history.
Ostreicher's work has been funded by Lenape cassino interests for years.
So when the manger of the Lenape casino in Oklahoma shows up and tells me that the Loyal recieved that name because they were loyal to the union in the Civil War. And when Brad Lepper seeks Lenape support for the Ohio Historical Society, and promotes the Lenape memory of a "white road", at the same timeworking his hardest to concoct fake native history on the dime of the people of Ohio...
Let us start by examining the Sioux claims. They are based on the Siouxian tribes who lived back east at the time of European contact. for the southern Siouxian tribes, Catawba and Saponi, their arrival was remembered by the Cherokee.
For the Monocan, the difference between Lenape and Shawnee remains are quite well known to the archaeologists of western Maryland, who know them as Monongahela Late Woodlands and Keyser Late Woodlands respectively.
The Sioux (mengwe in Lenape, any other people later used to describe the mingo, mostly members of other nations who were fleeing the colonists such as Chief Logan) who accompanied them are shown by the catlinite flat disk pipes. The documentation of these in easwtern Ohio may be found in Bob Converse's book "The Archaeology of Ohio" a book which Mr. Lepper plagiarized from (either intentionally or inadvertently) and then suppressed.
