The Walam Olum, Walum Olum or Wallam Olum, usually translated as "Red Record" or "Red Score", is purportedly a historical narrative of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American tribe. The document has provoked controversy as to its authenticity since its publication in the 1830s by botanist and antiquarian Constantine Samuel Rafinesque .

The Walam Olum origin myth involves an act of creation of all things by a 'Manitou', who subsequently battles an evil 'Magician' who brings death, disease and bad weather into the world.

2023年2月28日 · Introduction.--Walam olum: Pictographs and Lenape text, after C. Rafinesque. Translation, by C.F. Voegelin. Interpretation of the pictographs, by E. Lilly.

The "Red Record" (The Wallum Olum) is not new or a recently discovered piece of ancient history. It was given to the white man in 1820, when its last caretaker presented it to a Dr. Ward , a Moravian missionary and physician who had lived among the Lenni-Lenape for a …

Scholars saw the Walam Olum as evidence corroborating an Asian origin for Native Americans, as Rafinesque maintained. There were some doubts about the Walum Olam's authenticity, but it...

At first, in that place, at all times, above the earth, 1. Sayewi talli wemiguma wokgetaki, 2. On the earth, [was] an extended fog, and there the great Manito was. 2. Hackung kwelik owanaku wak yutali Kitanitowit-essop. 3. At first, forever, lost in space, everywhere, the great Manito was. 3. Sayewis hallemiwis nolemiwi elemamik Kitanitowit-essop.

Walam Olum. The sacred tribal chronicle of the Lenape or Delawares. The name signifies ‘painted tally’ or ‘red score,’ from walam, ‘painted,’ particularly ‘red painted,’ and olum,’ a score or tally.’

The Walam Olum is an excerpt from The Lenâpé and Their Legends, by Samuel G. Brinton. Brinton's Library of Aboriginal Literature number V. Phildelphia, 1885. This is one of the only indigenous pre-contact written texts available from North America.

Walam Olum, believed by some students of American prehistory to be an authentic historical chronicle of the Delawares and sig-nificant as the migration narrative of a portion of the great Algon-quian Indian linguistic family. The Walam Olum consisted of bundles of sticks or pieces of bark upon which mnemonic ideo-

2008年6月2日 · The text of the Walam olum (Red score) is from a manuscript prepared by C.S. Rafinesque in 1833 from materials furnished by a Delaware Indian.