[DariusBane]

Exerpt:Yesterday, while still unsuccessfully looking for another Native American language that used the same word for water as the Muskogee, I stumbled upon shocking information. The Muskogee word for water was the word used for water by a Pre-Celtic, Bronze Age peoples in northwestern Europe.

[TexasGator]

Your take?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Ping!
Did someone say “whisky”.

[WKUHilltopper]

Elizabeth Warren wasn’t asked to contribute to this article??

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[refreshed]

Extremely interesting. I am very glad I read the article. One thing that struck me was the word for water and how it apparently spanned the Atlantic in two forms, akwe and eau. So interesting. There is so much we don’t know about the settling of the Americas.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[GreyFriar]

An interesting article on the Muskogee Indian tribes. Especially interesting to me is the final section on the linkage of the Muskogean and Celtic words for water. And the account of a 1521 Spanish report of finding “a Caucasian people on the South Atlantic Coast, who lived like American Indians, except that they made cheese from the milk of dairy deer. In addition to maize, they raised a grain that looked like barely. They called their province Duhare, which was the Early Medieval Gaelic word for “Irish”.”

[Mr Radical]

Or maybe it was the Cherokees that discovered Norway?
;-)

[libertylover]

If you can say, “Roll Tide”, does that qualify you as being able to speak Alabaman?

[Osage Orange]

Broshou, Nican!!

[PUGACHEV]

In 1541-42 Francisco de Orellana was the first European to travel down the Amazon river from Peru to the Atlantic. He brought fifty men in a small boat, but went ashore somewhere near the Western border of Brazil. He had saved a quantity of iron horseshoes, and built a forge in a native village to make them into nails and build a second boat. Orellana had a genius for language. For years prior to the voyage, he had copied down every native language he encountered in a notebook, and mastered them. He used his skill to establish communication with the village chief immediately, and quickly learned the dialect. To the villagers, who had no notion of anyone from outside their territory, the Spaniards seemed like Martians, and their metal working skill was something they had never seen. Orellana stayed there for three weeks building the new boat, and as news of these remarkable visitors spread, delegations other from other tribes in the interior came to have a look. Orellana was aware of how important his exploration was and he kept a careful and precise account of everything that happened. He recorded that the other people who visited him there were remarkably diverse. Some he wrote were tall and fair skinned, and distinctly unlike the others in custom, appearance, and language.

Orellana went on to complete his voyage, and sailed out of the Amazon and into the Atlantic. It was more than twenty years before anyone else went down the Amazon, and when they did, they found the area had been devistated an depopulated by disease brought by Orellana’s men, and the natives left were uniformly hostile.

Who knows what civilizations existed in the Amazon basin before Orellana, or from what stock they came.