Does Genesis have anything to do with the pre-European history of North America? The answer, surprisingly, is yes. Genesis has a shocking amount of relevance to Native American history.
If you grew up in the public schools, you might be inclined to think otherwise. “About 15,000 years ago, primitive Asians migrated across the Bering Strait into what is now Alaska”—so the mainstream story goes. It’s a direct rejection of creation about 6,000 years ago, of the flood about 4,500 years ago, and of Babel shortly thereafter. The mainstream account of Native American history seems to have nothing to do with Genesis.
But the mainstream narrative is inherently weak. It fails to answer basic questions like, “What was the greatest empire in pre-European North America? Who built it? When did it collapse, and why?” If you grew up in the public schools, you probably never heard answers to these questions or even thought to ask them.
Into this void has stepped science grounded in Genesis 1–11. Creationists—doing research based in Genesis—have recently discovered answers to these North American history questions and are turning the origins debate upside down.
What am I talking about? Let’s ask the question anew: What was the greatest empire that ruled pre-European North America? Now that we’ve asked this question, we’re immediately confronted with more: How would we go about finding an answer? And why haven’t the evolutionists found one? I’ll tell you the answer to the latter: Evolutionists have had great difficulty connecting archaeological sites to names of tribes that we recognize from the time of European contact.
Can creationists do any better? In my previous article, I showed how Genesis-based science confirmed an indigenous migration history. This same migration account describes how the ancestors of the Delaware nation—relatives of the Algonquians at the first Thanksgiving—crossed the Great Plains and arrived at the Mississippi River in the early AD 1200s. There they encountered a formidable foe, the Talega who “possessed the east.”1
The Algonquian nation first tried diplomacy with the Talegas. The latter massacred the Algonquians.
Who were these menacing guardians of the lands east of the Mississippi? Archaeology reveals an extensive culture who peaked in the AD 1200s east of the Mississippi. The name, however, the Mississippian culture, doesn’t give us insights as to who built it.
Figure 1. Map of the growth of Mississippian culture.
But indigenous histories do. The Natchez nation has a migration account describing a migration north from Mexico. The extent of their empire sounds eerily familiar to the extent of the Mississippian culture. Long story short, the Natchez were the Talega. They were the Mound Builders who “possessed the east.” The Natchez built the greatest empire in pre-European North America.
In the previous article, I took for granted that the Algonquians eventually made it past the Mississippi. I said that the Algonquians arrived in New England just a century and a half before the Pilgrims did. Here, I said they were massacred by the Natchez.
How did the Algonquians make it to New England? How did they circumvent their violent Natchez foes? If your guess is, maybe Genesis-based science will discover the answer, kudos to you! Stay tuned for the answer in our next article!
For more history on the Natchez and their battle with the Algonquians, see They Had Names.
