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Also, I've read much speculation that the Mandans may be the remnants of the Prince Madoc (Welsh) group that came to the US in 1170AD...Lately I've read 540AD.

That's been proven to be a hoax, blam. It was no more than a lame British attempt to "prove" that they had the rights to North America.

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"That's been proven to be a hoax, blam. It was no more than a lame British attempt to "prove" that they had the rights to North America."

Could be. I certainlly have my suspicions too.

Now, I read somewhere that when Lewis & Clark reported back to Thomas Jefferson about their travels out west that they told him of blue-eyed Indian that they'd encountered. Jefferson said, "There'll be no more talk of blue-eyed Indians." His motivation were that it could open the door for other European countries to make a claim on western parts of North America.