The Appalachian Shawnee Tribe (AST) is an non-Federal, group of people of Shawnee (and other natives and White) descent bound together to preserve their (Shawnee) heritage, history and language and to enjoy each others' company.
The AST has several web sites: the home site above, a Facebook group, a sales web site, and the original AST (private) web site.
The AST has recently acquired the exclusive rights to the LENAPE history via Quick Response codes.
The LENAPE were people from Greenland, who migrated to and through the Shawnee, who were already living in America. The LENAPE migrated for 150 years to get to New Jersey via the Dakotas and Missouri. The LENAPE historians composed a History of 184 self-verifying stanzas.
The history begins at Chapter 3 of the Walam Olum. “Walam Olum” is a mispronunciation if “Maalan Arun,” which means, “Engraved Years.”
The “engraving” was sketches of pictographic cues, which helped the reciting historian use the correct words, so that the audience could hear the verification of the stanzas. Sketches of one hundred and eighty four pictographs remain. They have been saved in the Sacred Sites web site since early in the Internet era.
The Quick Response codes point to an 18-week semester of LENAPE history, which have been deciphered back to the original language. The stanzas have been deciphered to recover over 90% of the original words. Thus the wording shown with the Quick Reponse codes is a better deciphering of the original sounds.
Reider T. Sherwin collected nearly all the Shawnee and LENAPE words with their meaning. So the meaning of the original sounds is recorded in the eight volumes of Sherwin’s book, the VIKING and the RED MAN.
The AST now has the Quick Response codes to the first semester of the LENAPE history, which starts about the year 1,000 and covers episodes in nealy four centuries, until AD 1363.
The AST has the QR codes available in three forms:
1. Unique (single) episodes with the original Pictograph
and the translation of the deciphered words.
2. A one page layout with QRs paired with the original
Pictograph, but NO text. The one page can is better
to carry in notebooks or put in files, but the viewer
should be familiar witlh the episodes the Pictographs
represent.
3. A Pamphlet that pairs the QR code to the Pictographs and
the translation of the deciphered sounds.
The 18 episodes are an 18 week course for a semester, one episode per week. Each episode has questions, which are based on the Pictographs, an ancient artifact, and the meaning of the original words. A post, which gives the answers, is presented after the stanzas, artifact, and word posts have been studied.
While the AST is preparing the sales presentation of the QR codes, the best way to get your copy of the QRs is to contact Chief Don Greene via the messenger feature of the Facebook AST group. Ask him for:
1. Single Episodes, (See list below)
2. The one page layout, or
3. the pamphlet.
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