[lexington minuteman 1775]

puttin on my tinfoil hat and moving to my bunker.BWAHAHAHAHA

[EggsAckley]

learn sump'in ever day, I do de-clare!

[Mamzelle]

Sunnah? That's Sunni. NAh!! All us Cherokees are Shi'ites. You can tell by the way we only scalp with the left hand.

[WFTR]

I don't know of any documented contact between the Muslims and the Cherokees from over a thousand years ago, but there is documentation that Sir Francis Drake left maybe a thousand or fifteen hundred Turks on the shores of Virginia in the 1500's. There is some evidence to suggest that these people moved inland and had contact with various Indian tribes. However, the notion that they maintained their Muslim religion is a stretch. The evidence also suggests that they intermarried with the natives and other stranded folks from the Old World and became a different people. I've written a long essay about them at The Melungeons: Appalachian Mystery.

WFTR
Bill

[JudyB1938]

You might have missed this. Interesting, in light of the fact that I believe Fell, et al, are correct. IIRC, this is the first time I've read anything like this, outside of that group.

[blam]

Was America A Phoenecian Colony?