WALAM OLUM HOAX
"Among Lenape scholars the Walum Olum was a forgery. David M. Oestreicher examined Rafinesque's papers and discovered that Rafinesque had first translated the document from English into Lenape. See David M. Oestreicher, "Unraveling the Walam Olum," Natural History, October 1996, 14-21; "Unmasking the Walam Olum: A 19th-Century Hoax," Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, #49, 1994, pp 10-44; and The Algonquin of New York, (NYC: Rosen Publishing, 2002)" Dennis William Johnson, Dec. 2005
