Can I ask the story’s? I would be fascinated to read such an account. It seems quite probable to me.
“Can I ask the story’s? I would be fascinated to read such an account. It seems quite probable to me.”
I first ran across the story some decades ago while reading some books about pre-Columbian New World archaeology. A quick search of the Internet came up with this website that tells much of the same story about the Yuchi, their festival, language, and worship. Note the connection to King Solomon. See:
The Saga of Ancient Hebrew Explorers
Who Really Discovered America?
Did ancient Hebrews reach the shores of the North and South American continents thousands of years before Christopher Columbus? What evidence is there for Hebrew and Israelite occupation of the Western Hemisphere even a thousand years before the Messiah? Was trans-Atlantic commerce and travel fairly routine in the days of king Solomon of Israel? Read here the intriguing, fascinating saga of the TRUE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA!
http://hope-of-israel.org/hebinusa.htm
There are also a variety of sources regarding Hebrew/Jewish populations in the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian Americas. In particular, there is a wide variety of stories, historical records, and DNA evidence describing Sephardic Jews, Middle Eastern populations, Syrians, Berbers, and other Mediterranean people living in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Americas, especially in and nearby the Appalachian region. Some of the Cherokee Indian bands have DNA which is reported to have more Jewish and other Middle Eastern and North African DNA than most European Jews of today. This is often explained as the descendants of the Sephardic Jewish miners in 17th Century Virginia, Carolinas, and Georgia; while other stories connect some of the others to the survivors of the early failed Spanish 16th Century colonies in the Carolinas traveling upstream to find water and defensible territory during the great drought.
A few samples of online sources:
DNA scientists claim that Cherokees are from the Middle East
http://www.examiner.com/article/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east
Southeastern Native Americans with Jewish DNA
September 29, 2013 Richard Thornton
http://peopleofonefire.com/southeastern_native_americans_with_jewish_dna.html
Wikipedia has an article about hypothetical pre-Columbian contacts:
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
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