Many peoples came to America from many places. Look at a map of North America. It is easy to see that peoples would have come to North America from the south by land or by ships and boats on water.
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In ancient times oceans were highways. Peoples used the Atlantic highway to come and go from the north and coast of North America. Peoples floated on the Pacific highway to reach sunny California. They floated away toward Hawaii to return to Asia.
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Ships and boats connected the world like airplanes now connect the world. Today some large airplanes come to North America by flying over the North Pole. In ancient times the smaller boats, not ships, came into North America from the north through Hudson Bay.
These boats came through Hudson Strait. They rowed across Hudson Bay to the Nelson River. Crews rowed up the Nelson River, through Lake Winnipeg, and on up the Red River to western Minnesota.
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Most of the land outside of the rivers and lakes was often flooded. This land was called Skugg Land, which means "whisker" land. The land was often swampy. The land was often flooded in the spring. The tall grass growing out of the wet earth looked like "whiskers."
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But at Wynland of West there was "fine" land. That land was high enough to that the spring water ran off, grass grew in solid ground, and yet timber and fishing lakes were near by.
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The people of Wynland of the West wisely chose to settle above the highest flood beach. The ancient records used the name "island" for the high land to the east of the Red River because it was often like an island during the spring snow melt.
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Most of the land outside of the rivers and lakes was often flooded. This land was called Skugg Land, which means "whisker" land. The land was often swampy. The land was often flooded in the spring. The tall grass growing out of the wet earth looked like "whiskers."
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But at Wynland of West there was "fine" land. That land was high enough to that the spring water ran off, grass grew in solid ground, and yet timber and fishing lakes were near by.
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The people of Wynland of the West wisely chose to settle above the highest flood beach. The ancient records used the name "island" for the high land to the east of the Red River because it was often like an island during the spring snow melt.
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Wynland of West may have been known as far back in time as the "Bronze Age." Bronze is made of 9 parts of copper and 1 part of lead. At the time copper was the most precious metal in the world. The crews in the big boats were coming to pick up pure copper that lay on the shore around Lake Superior.
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To get to the copper near Lake Superior men had to row up stream from any direction. In some places the water flowed down stream almost as fast as they could row up stream. On sections of rivers, where the water flowed fast, they sometimes traveled less than 3 miles a day.
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But, probably, the more tiresome effort was to row back and forth through the many "S" turns, which are created by slow moving water in a flat river channel. Stretches of the Red River have a slope of only eight inches per mile. At Moorhead, MN boat crews must row 6.3 miles to move the boat up steam 2.3 miles. The distance rowed on the water is 2.7 times more than the distance walked by a man along the bank of the river channel.
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But, probably, the more tiresome effort was to row back and forth through the many "S" turns, which are created by slow moving water in a flat river channel. Stretches of the Red River have a slope of only eight inches per mile. At Moorhead, MN boat crews must row 6.3 miles to move the boat up steam 2.3 miles. The distance rowed on the water is 2.7 times more than the distance walked by a man along the bank of the river channel.
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Men came for copper for a thousand years. Some of the men made a different waterway. At Wynland of West they were in grassland. They called it "Wynland," which meant "fine" land, which was smooth with no trees. The men realized they could pull their heavy boats faster by walking on paths through grassland beside the river channel. That way they could make about twenty miles a day.
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Then, when they reached a lake at a higher elevation, they could get in the boat, row across the lake to go out on another stream from the lake. Then they could row swiftly down stream through the forest. On one stretch of the rivers they appear to have gone 70 miles in a day. They could also cross from the Red River basin to the Mississippi River basin with the boats still on water.
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The copper men used this transcontinental waterway to get close to the copper. They loaded their boats with copper at Minneapolis. Then, They floated the boats down the Mississippi and on to Europe.
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After 1,000 years of transporting copper, a very nasty Dark Age came upon the world. The Bronze Age ended 1,200 years before Christ. When the world came back to normal, the people in Europe had learned to make iron.
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During the next two millenniums the people of the world lived through two more Dark Ages. The American people and some of boats left in the northern seas still used the transcontinental waterway for trading.
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But smaller, lighter canoes became the vessel of choice on the transcontinental waterway. The waterway and the many rivers in the Mississippi basin enabled the Mississippi culture to flourish.
The people in the Mississippi culture may have spoken Lenape.
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Before 900 AD the Roman Catholic Church records recorded that some people in the northern seas were Christians. Four old records are testimony that Norse Christians lived in Wynland of West before 1,200 AD.
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But smaller, lighter canoes became the vessel of choice on the transcontinental waterway. The waterway and the many rivers in the Mississippi basin enabled the Mississippi culture to flourish.
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| Yellow triangles = ADENA, Red circles = HOPEWELL. Black circles = Mississippi. |
The people in the Mississippi culture may have spoken Lenape.
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Before 900 AD the Roman Catholic Church records recorded that some people in the northern seas were Christians. Four old records are testimony that Norse Christians lived in Wynland of West before 1,200 AD.
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