The Library Kids : Red Haired Giants

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Red Haired Giants - Part 2

There are several mummies and skeletons being found that don't fit the mold for what is thought to be an ancient Native American. Specifically the following sites contained these anomalies:

Windover Bog Mummies in Florida

Spirit Cave Man in Fallon, Nevada

The Sitecah of Lovelock Cave in Nevada

Kenniwick Man of Washington State

Mention of Giant Skeletons found all over the Midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and so on.)

The Princess at Aztalan

Red-Haired Mummies of Peru

It is a touchy subject as to the true origins of these ancient people; however, the truth must come out. There are those such as myself that believe that Europeons travelled across the Atlantic Ocean and populated the Americas atleast 10,000 years ago and probably well before that. Tales of St. Brendan and Viking travels to America help to corroborate this theory.

What I find interesting is the intense pressure to prevent DNA testing of these finds or the fact that many of the remains that were turned over to museums have simply disappeared. This is also the case for any finds of The Little People mummies from out west in America. In the specific case of the Lovelock Cave mummies of Nevada, it is sited in wikipedia that a fraternity got a hold of a red-haired mummy from the cave and actually burnt it as part of an initiation ceremony in 1911. How in the world was this allowed to happen? Unfortunately, many mummies from Egypt were treated in a terrible manner as well and mummy unwrapping parties took place in the 1800s as well as the using of the mummies for fake medicinals. According to wikipedia:

According to Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah are a legendary tribe whose mummified remains were discovered (under four feet of guano) by miners in what is now known as “Lovelock Cave” in Lovelock, Nevada, United States. Although the cave had been mined since 1911, it was not until 1912 when miners notified authorities. An archeological excavation ensued producing 10,000 artifacts. "Si-Te-Cah" literally means “tule-eaters” in the language of the Paiute Indians. Tule is a fibrous water plant. In order to escape harassment from the Paiutes, the Si-Te-Cahs were said to have lived on rafts made of tule on the lake.

According to the Paiutes, the Si-Te-Cah were a hostile and warlike tribe who practiced cannibalism. The Si-Te-Cah and the Paiutes were at war, and after a long struggle a coalition of tribes trapped the remaining Si-Te-Cah in Lovelock Cave. When they refused to come out, the Indians piled brush before the cave mouth and set it aflame. The Si-Te-Cah were annihilated.

A written report by James H. Hart, the first of two miners to excavate the cave in the fall of 1911, recalls that in the north-central part of the cave, about four feet deep, "was a striking looking body of a man “six feet six inches tall.” His body was mummified and his hair distinctly red." (Loud & Harrington, page 87).

Unfortunately in the first year of mining, some of the human remains and artifacts were lost and destroyed. "The best specimen of the adult mummies was boiled and destroyed by a local fraternal lodge, which wanted the skeleton for initiation purposes." (Loud & Harrington, page 5). Also, several of the fiber sandals found in the cave were remarkably large, and one reported at over 15 inches (38 cm) in length was said to be on display at the Nevada Historical Society's museum in Reno in 1952.

I find the story of the fraternity's destruction of the mummy, even more suspicious. It was as if the evidence of a giant race of red-haired people that dominated in the past, was being purposely suppressed. We must press on for the truth. According to wikipedia:

The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America^[1]^[2]. It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, thirteen miles east^[3] of Fallon, Nevada by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.

The Wheelers, working for the Nevada State Parks Commission, were surveying possible archaeological sites to prevent their loss due to guano mining. Upon entering Spirit Cave they discovered the remains of two people wrapped in tule matting. One set of remains, buried deeper than the other, had been partially mummified (the head and right shoulder). The Wheelers, with the assistance of local residents, recovered a total of sixty-seven artifacts from the cave.

These artifacts were examined at the Nevada State Museum where they were estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 years old. They were deposited at the Nevada State Museum’s storage facility in Carson City where they remained for the next fifty-four years

In 1996 University of California, Riverside anthropologist R. Ervi Taylor examined seventeen of the Spirit Cave artifacts using mass spectrometry. The results indicated that the mummy was approximately 9,400 years old (uncalibrated Radio-Carbon Years Before-Present (RCYBP); ~11.5 Kya calibrated) — older than any previously known North American mummy.

In March 1997, the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony made a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) claim of cultural affiliation with the artifacts^[4].

Further study determined that the mummy exhibits Caucasoid characteristics resembling the Ainu^[5], although a definitive affiliation has not been established. There is also a possible link to Polynesians and Australians that is stronger than to any Native American culture^[5].

The findings were published^[6] by the Nevada State Museum on October 24, 1999^{[citation needed]}, and drew immediate^[7] national attention^[8]^[9].

In September, 2006, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada ruled on a lawsuit by the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and said that the Bureau of Land Management made an error in dismissing evidence without a full explanation. The court order remanded the matter back to the BLM for reconsideration of the evidence ^[10].