LIST of EDUCATORS.

ADVOCATING

NORSE in AMERICA

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We want to advocate the Viking Visitors to North America film [http://www.nfb.ca/film/viking_visitors_to_north_america] for university history, anthology, archaeology, and Linguist Educators of early American History.  We want to encourage them to have their students view the video.

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The video, created in 1979, shows in photographic detail that the Norse were in America one thousand years ago and that they were still here in 1362.

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The top 27 professional researchers in North America, who agreed on the statements above, participated in making the film. 
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Every classroom of university courses covering early American history should have seen this film.  But the film was "put in the can" and not promoted.
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The recent firing of Patricia Sutherland and other historians gives a view of the paradigms of the WASPs in Canada.  If they admit that Norse were in America, they might have to admit that the Norse were Christians.  The French thought so.
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If the Canadian Government admitted that the Norse Catholics were in their country 1,000 years ago, then the people they label as "aboriginal" are certainly not!
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The problem with the U.S. educational system is that the Norse in America came through Canadian territory.  The WASPs in both countries suppressed knowledge about Norse Catholics. Canada's continued suppression  [http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs] is omitting much evidence from the record.  
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The Eurocentric paradigm has profoundly distorted what the kids learn for history.  Marks carved into stone cannot overcome a WASP mind set that ignores the stone.

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If you are an university professor and if you have never seen the Viking Visitor film, the reason is NOT because the evidence is not valid.  
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The reason is that you, too, got caught in the WASP "suppression by omission."  I encourage you to be adamant to complain about the knowledge withheld from you.

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You, too, were "loaded in da boat." 

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Administrators, who had a faulty paradigm in their heads, suppressed the Viking Visitors film for nearly four decades.  The film was suppressed because educators, who did not know the film existed, omitted discussion of the evidence of Norse in America.
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If an artifact or video was not discussed, then students thought that the artifact or video never existed.  [Over 400 Norse in America artifacts DO lay around in North America.  Over 30,000 Old Norse words are still spoken by Lenape descendants in America.  Over ten states and two provinces of Canada have Old Norse names.] [http://lenapehistory.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-find-meaning-of-most-algonquin.html]  All this knowledge is omitted from the Social Science text books.]

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Our task is daunting because we are trying to make educators, who are in a suppressed educational system, teach students about things they, the educators, believe never existed.  

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We hope we can get them to show the Viking Visitors to their students. If the students see the evidence that the Norse were in America a thousand years ago and were still here in 1362, then, maybe, they will begin to understand that other teachers have also participated in a “suppression by omission” process.

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WHAT CAN WE DO?

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We can, each of us, send a personal email to faculty in the university history, anthology, archaeology, and linguist departments.  We should advocate the use of the Viking Visitors film.

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Those of us with access to nearby universities may go in person to offer to show film.

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You should, personally, compose your own email words.  

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(We do NOT want to look like a canned and scripted political campaign.  We DO want to look like many people, who are concerned enough to write their own suggestions to educators.)

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You should send the emails on your schedule during the first three weeks of each new semester, including summer session.

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Be positive and polite.  The university professors are key to paradigm change.  If they omit discussion about 400 artifacts and 30,000 words of Norse evidence, then the suppression will continue.  
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If they present the factual knowledge to the next generation, the Norse in America paradigm may change.
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 LINGUISTICS
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       Cornell University
                 Department of Linguistics
                       lingdept@cornell.edu
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       Ohio State University
                 Department of Linguistics
                       lingadm@ling.osu.edu
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        Stanford
                 Department of Linguistics
                       linguistics@stanford.edu
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       University of California
            at Berkeley
                 Department of Linguistics
                       linginfo@berkeley.edu
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           at Los Angeles
                Anoop Mahajan
                      mahajan@humnet.ucla.edu
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          at Santa Clara
                    Armin Mester
                      mester@ucsc.edu
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       University of Chicago
              Department of Linguistics
                      linguistics@uchicago.edu
                     Alan C. L. Yu
                           aclyu@uchicago.edu
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        University of Texas
                Benjamin Rapstine
                     rapstine@mail.utexas.edu
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