The INVASION

The INVASION

AD 1585 - 1720

When, over two hundred years after the Lenape had left Greenland to settle in America, Queen Elizabeth, the first of England, was granting provisions for Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to the New World, with the mission to establish an English colony there, she agreed that two highly accomplished men, John White, an artist, and John Harriot, an eminent man of science, should go with the expedition.
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Hariot, once the colonists arrived at Roanoke Island, quickly learned the Algonquin language of the Leni Lenape from the native American descendants of the Greenland Norse living there.

When enquiring of a local chief as to the religious beliefs of his people, he was informed - 'There is one chiefe God that has been from all eternitie.'
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Hariot wrote that, 'They believe in the immortality of the soul.'
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He also later wrote that he was renewed in his Christian faith by the devotion shown to Jesus by the Lenni Lenape priests.
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They called him 'Geezis', 'the light of the world,' and worshipped him through the sun. 

(frozentrail.org, Dr. Myron Paine), 

quoting (Ingman 1966) and Mowat (1965))

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