Native Americans Are Related To The Ten Lost Tribes: Chief Riverwind Says

Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – Is it possible that Native Americans are closely related to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?

Native American Chief Joseph Riverwind of Northern Arawak Nation has put forward a controversial theory some think is worth closer investigation. The Amahura war chief is convinced the two nations have very much in common and he points out several striking similarities between their religion, customs and ancient history.

Chief Riverwind, is a descendant of Native Americans and Bnei Anousim, Jews who were forced to hide or forced convert to Catholicism during the 14th and 15th century.

In an interview with breaking Israel News, Chief Riverwind made it clear there is no doubt in his mind Native Americans and Jews have more in common than most realize.

“Among my people, our ancient name for God is Yah Yah ‘The Supreme Spirit of Spirits’, very similar to Yahweh.

Among my wife’s ancestors, the AniKituwahYah (Cherokee), they called God YoHeWaH. And the similarities don’t stop there. They carried an ark into battle, celebrate seven feasts, kept a seventh day of rest, had cities of refuge, and don’t eat pork,” Chief Riverwind says.

Though the etymological similarities may be coincidental Chief Riverwind thinks Native American creation stories also resemble certain Biblical accounts.

The story of the Great Flood and Noah is one example. A Choctaw story tells how the Creator came to a man called Nuah and told him the world would be covered with water. The man was told to make a great raft to save mankind. The stories come from oral traditions which date to pre-Columbian times.

“Another Native American story tells of a time when the world was all one land mass, and we were all one tribe. We tried to build a sky tower to the creator. These are pre-missionary oral traditions. They are passed down through specially trained storytellers who are forbidden from changing a single word,” Chief Riverwind says.

“First Nations have many prophecies that have been passed down for generations. We know that in the long ago time, the Creator destroyed the earth with water, and today, we are living in the generations when the fires will come to purify the Earth.”

As Chief Riverwind explained, the Anishnabi (Chippewa) believe they are from the Tribe of Ephraim.

“Anishnabi” is amazing similar to the Hebrew words, “Anshe Navi” (people of the Prophet). “They lived on the coast, but their legends say that before that, they came from across the great waters. We have cave-drawings of these ships that are very similar to drawings of Phoenician ships in history books.”

Chief Riverwind’s linking Native Americans to the Ten Lost tribes goes against the most common accepted theory that states Native Americans are descended from Siberian Mongolians who migrated to North America via the Bering Strait, a 50-mile-wide gap that separates Alaska from Russia.

There is of course still debate over exactly when and how many times the ancestors of present-day Native Americans entered the New World from Siberia.

In one of the most comprehensive studies of the genetic prehistory of the Americas to date, scientists demonstrated that all Native Americans, including the major sub-groups of Amerindians and Athabascans, descend from the same migration wave into the Americas.

Another intriguing study shows that Northern Europeans are closely related to Native Americans.

According to Nick Patterson, first author of the science report, published in the Genetics Society of America’s journal Genetics.

“There is a genetic link between the paleolithic population of Europe and modern Native Americans.

The evidence is that the population that crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia into the Americas more than 15,000 years ago was likely related to the ancient population of Europe.”

Over the years, many theories have been presented and there are still scientists who debate the origin of Native Americans.

Chief Riverwind’s theory is interesting, but of course controversial. However, there are those who subscribe to the theory. Roni Segal, the academic adviser for eTeacher, an online language academy, was fascinated by the possible connection. “Paleo-Hebrew dates back to the tenth century BCE. The language itself is a key to many ancient mysteries,” she told Breaking Israel News.

“Though these discoveries are surprising, when studying the language that was used by God to communicate with Man, these types of connections are not entirely unexpected.” Chief Riverwind feels this connection is especially important today.

“These are things we didn’t share in public before. Now, I really feel there is something stirring in the air. It isn’t by chance that the Native Americans are facing a huge propaganda campaign at the same time as the Jews in Israel are being told they aren’t indigenous,” he stated.

“The Native Americans suffered ethnic cleansing and that is what they want to do to the Jews. We have that in common, and it is happening now.”

Perhaps the ancient Native American connection with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel is a theory that deserves more investigation.

Written by – Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com