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“When Columbus…What year did Columbus sail the world? Came to this area. It says 1492, Columbus came to this area. So, when Columbus came, he found so many artifacts here in America that proved that the Muslims were here first. Muslims were here before Columbus. From where? From West Africa. From West Africa. Or from Andalus.(Muslim Spain)
For many of us who don’t know this information, we have documented the last great chief from the Cherokee Nation in 1866. What was his name? What was his name? His name was Ramadan Ibn Wati. Ramadan, like the month we’re about to celebrate. His name was Ramadan Ibn Wati.
Muslims had already come here to America. Muslims came after Columbus. After they came here, they (non-Muslims) killed… Some say there were 50 million, but others say there were almost 100 million Native Americans here. And they had interactions with Muslims. From the documents of Columbus, he said that he wrote that when he came to this area, especially in the Caribbean, he saw people looking like and praying like Mohammedans. So they had interaction. The Spaniards had interaction with the Muslims. They knew what the Muslims looked like. And he saw a Masjid. (a mosque) He saw a mosque in the Caribbean, in Cuba. Go do your research, brothers. Go do your reading. You’ll find out the truth.”
ACTUAL KNOWN HISTORY, SEGMENT 1: Christopher Columbus never reported that he “saw a mosque in the Caribbean, in Cuba,” or “any interactions with Muslims” in the Americas during his exploration. Columbus noted a seeing a “little hill” on a mountain summit in the Caribbean whose shape reminded him of a mosque. There was no 19th century “last great chief from the Cherokee nation named “Ramadan Ibn Wati.” Isaac S. Watie, known by his Cherokee name Stand Watie was born in Georgia attended a Christian mission school, and later was a Speaker of the Cherokee National Council. He served the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War becoming the only native American (brigadier) general, the highest ranking native American, who commanded an Indian brigade.
Christopher Columbus, “Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus,” in Julius E. Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne, eds., . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, Original Narratives of Early American History. The original document of Columbus’ journal was written in 1492-1493 but has been lost. However, it has been paraphrased and quoted by Bartolome de Las Casas. From this existing version of Columbus’ journal:
Monday October 29, 1492
“Remarking on the position of the river and port, to which he gave the name of San Salvador, he describes its mountains as lofty and beautiful, like the Pena de las Enamoradas, and one of them has another little hill on its summit, like a graceful mosque. The other river and port, in which he now was, has two round mountains to the S.W., and a fine low cape running out to the W.S.W.”
“Born at Oothcaloga in the Cherokee Nation, Georgia (near present day Rome, Georgia) on December 12, 1806, Stand Watie’s Cherokee name was De-ga-ta-ga, or “he stands.” He also was known as Isaac S. Watie. He attended Moravian Mission School at Springplace Georgia, and served as a clerk of the Cherokee Supreme Court and Speaker of the Cherokee National Council prior to removal… At the outbreak of the Civil War, Watie quickly joined the Southern cause. He was commissioned a colonel on July 12, 1861, and raised a regiment of Cherokees for service with the Confederate army… Watie’s two greatest victories were the capture of the federal steam boat J.R. Williams on June 15, 1864, and the seizure of $1.5 million worth of supplies in a federal wagon supply train a the Second battle of Cabin Creek on September 19, 1864. Watie was promoted to brigadier general on May 6, 1864, and given command of the first Indian Brigade. He was the only Indian to achieve the rank of general in the Civil War. Watie surrendered on June 23, 1865, the last Confederate general to lay down his arms…After the war, Watie served as a member of the Southern Cherokee delegation during the negotiation of the Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of 1866. He then abandoned public life and returned to his old home along Honey Creek. He died on September 9, 1871.”
Segment 2 Text:
“So what happened here in America? Like I mentioned, there were interactions between the Muslims from West Africa and the Native Americans before Columbus.So the Native Americans had a relationship. They had a relationship with the Muslims.That’s why you find many areas in America with Arabic names, Arabic origins.
Like the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Mountains.The Allegheny Mountains, Allah Ghani. It means Allah is rich. Allah is rich. When the Muslims went to the area of Hawaii, they said Hawaii means Hawa, from Hawa. The air was so,it was so beautiful, so wonderful to breathe. The environment is so wonderful. And they went to the other island (Oahu, where Honolulu is located). They said Hunalulu, here are pearls, Hunalulu.”
ACTUAL KNOWN HISTORY, SEGMENT 2:
The Allegheny River derives from “Stream of the Allegewi” an ancient native American Indian tribe. Hawaii was settled by Polynesians, perhaps centuries before the advent of Islam, and the etymology of both the word “Hawaii,” “place of the gods” and “Honululu,” “calm port,” derive from the Polynesian language.
Allegheny River’s native American Indian name means, “Stream of the Alligewi” an ancient Native American tribe
“Most anthropologists believe that the original settlement of Hawaii was by Polynesians who migrated northwest from the Marquesas Islands between the 4th and 7th centuries ce, to be followed by a second wave of immigrants that sailed from Tahiti during the 9th or 10th century.”
“Hawaii /Hawai’I (derives) from Proto-Polynesian *hawaiki. Said to mean “Place of the Gods” and be a reference to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.”
“Hawaiian oral histories and modern archeology indicate a settlement in Honolulu about 1100 A.D., but it may have been settled earlier as the first Polynesian migrants arrived nearly 2,000 years ago. King Kamehameha I, who conquered Oahu in a decisive battle fought the length of Nuuanu Valley, moved his court from Hawaii Island to Waikiki in 1804. He relocated to what is now downtown Honolulu five years later. The royal housing complex site is under the Marin building built next to Nimitz Highway at Queen and Bethel streets. The monarchs also maintained official residences in Kailua on Hawaii and Lahaina on Maui.”
“Honolulu’s etymology derives from Hawaiian hono ‘port’ + lulu ‘calm.’”
“When Honolulu (meaning sheltered harbor) was named is unclear.”
