by Paul Schrag
The Suppressed History OF AMERICA
“Set against the compelling backdrop of Lewis and Clark’s historic first crossing of the North American continent, The Suppressed History of America breaks new ground and provides interesting food for thought, both for traditional students of American history and for those intrigued by the call of unresolved ancient mysteries.”
LAIRD SCRANTON, AUTHOR OF THE COSMOLOIICAL ORIIINS Of MFTH AND SYMBOL AND THE SCIENCE Of THE DOGON
“The Suppressed History of America is a thorough, well- documented, fast-paced exploration of the United States’ greatest mystery and adventure—the Lewis and Clark expedition.”
ÓCHÁNI LELE, AUTHOR OF TEACHINIS OF THE SANTERÍA GODS AND THE DILOIIÚN
“The Suppressed History of America . . . is a refreshing new addition to the field of the alternative history of the United States. Well researched and written, this book will serve to increase the interest in the full story of the great American explorer Meriwether Lewis. The authors present a cogent argument that Lewis was probably murdered, partly to cover up the profound discoveries he and Clark made in the early nineteenth century.”
STEPHEN S. MEHLER, AUTHOR OF THE LAND OFOSIRIS AND FROM LIIHT INTO DARKNESS
The route Lewis and Clark took on their famous journey. Map illustration by Mary K. Johnson.
The Suppressed History of AMERICA
The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
PAUL SCHRAG and
XAVIANT HAZE
Bear & Company Rochester, Vermont • Toronto, Canada
Contents
Foreword by Michael Tsarion
Introduction
1 * The Olmec Riddles
2 * Florida and the Fountain of Youth
3 * The Mysteries of the Mississippi Mound Builders 20
4 * Lewis and Clark and the Journey West
5 * Prince Madoc, Welsh Natives, and Legends of the Mandan
6 * Voyagers of the Pacific Coast and the Kennewick Man
7 * Giants in Ancient America
8 * The Hero Returns
9 * Friends in High Places
10 * The Murder of Meriwether Lewis
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions
Books of related interest
Copyright
Foreword
If it flies in the face of convention, suppress it. If it contradicts accepted academic dogma, reject it. If it opens minds, condemn it. If it turns history upside down, make sure it never sees the light of day. So has it been down through time. So it was in the late 1800s when Smithsonian executive John Wesley Powell and his colleagues decided that, for humanity’s good, they had best systematically destroy the vast amount of accumulated evidence proving that several Native American Indian tribes were most probably descended from ancient European visitors to the New World. Yes, in the minds of duplicitous psychopaths, destruction is always sanctified by some dubious pretext. Nevertheless, regardless of the blitzkrieg on truth, it is always a day for celebration when nefarious plots are foiled or exposed.
Reading through the pages of this book gives me this sense of satisfaction. It also furnishes me with additional proof of the devilry of people in high places. Although I have always been aware of the extraordinary lengths to which brainwashers will go to engender the consensus trance that suits their overall agenda for world control, it is valuable to learn even more about their ruthless and unceasing campaign to mislead us. Page after page, I was left aghast.
Particularly formidable are the revelations concerning the vaunted Smithsonian Institution that was legally established in 1846. Curiously, its founder, James Smithson (1765–1829), never visited the United States. It is not even clear what motivated him to found the institution. Its facade gives an impression of nobility and academic prowess, and its cathedral-like architecture exudes an aura of established credibility. The average visitor is not inclined to guess that the carefully arranged displays and tour-guide rhetoric are contrived to give them a false impression of America’s past. No, they walk away feeling intrigued, informed, and certain. Little do they suspect that they’ve been royally deceived.
Since its advent, the Smithsonian Institution and its eleven satellite museums have been visited by millions of people from all over the world. It is, according to its own PR spin, dedicated to “the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” That’s nice. But is it true?
Well, no! Unfortunately, as this book reveals, it is not true. Too bad the Smithsonian’s founders and board of regents decided to obliterate the evidence that contradicted consensual notions about America’s ancient history. Reading of their Machiavellian intrigue compels us to ask, yet again, what our world would be without such egregious censorship. Where would we be if humanity had open access to the information that has been sequestered and hidden away from sight? We can only guess.
These are a few of the questions that have perpetually arisen in my mind as, through the years, I delved into relatively unexplored areas of history. Personally, I have long been interested in ancient origins. My father enjoyed taking my brother and me to many megalithic sites in Northern Ireland. He did not have the same interest in them as I later developed, but in his own casual way he marveled at the stone circles and passage graves and made us aware of their mysterious history. That might have been the beginning for me.
Later, in the mid-1980s, I decided to revisit several sites to take measurements and photographs. I wanted to make a more precise study of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, Tara, Navan, Cong, Grianan de Aileach, Dun Aonghasa, and other extraordinary places. Of course, it wasn’t long before I realized that what Irish people generally knew about their ancient forebears was largely nonsense.
There was much more to what I was seeing, and I was determined to find out why these places existed, why they turned out to be aligned to the constellations, and why they had been designed so that one site in a field geomantically aligned with every other similar site in the country. I soon discovered that I was not getting my answers from the many contemptuous and myopic tour guides I encountered. It troubled me to think that the situation was probably not very different in other countries of the world. If what I suspected was true, something had to be done. Well, little did I know it at the time, but my real education had begun.
Fortunately I was never inclined to accept the implausible and often blatantly contrived jive I was taught in school and that I read in most mainstream or officially vetted history books. Whatever I found intriguing about the history of my own land, and other places, was frequently labeled and dismissed as “mythological.” It took time for me to realize that this is one of the most misapplied terms in the English language. In my opinion, it is one of many talismanic words used to entrain minds. It induces us to partition time, history, and reality into hemispheres that are then deliberately dislocated, and rarely if ever reunited. I know for a fact that this is what passes for education and intelligence in today’s world. One is considered educated as long as one does not question the flagrant trickery and deemed intelligent as long as one continues to practice the same travesty during one’s own academic career and intellectual feats.
Yes, declare something a “myth” or “legend,” and you can be sure that most people will regard it dismissively. A fact or event so labeled does not have the same impact or significance as that which an average person blithely takes for “reality.” Cross that line, break that trance to begin asking troublesome questions, and you risk a lot. Like Meriwether Lewis, the truth seeker might find the journey into the unknown
to be a perilous one.
To change your settings and walk the alternative road takes work and time. To think critically and doubt what you are supposed to believe takes guts. To read between the lines and fill in the blanks takes audacity and imagination. To negotiate the labyrinth of age-old deception takes determination, self-assuredness, and passion. Moreover, the reward sought by a legitimate truth-seeker is not that of public adulation but the breaking of a trance, the overcoming of formidable obstacles, the discernment of a subtle but perfidious lie-machinery, the exposure of truth, and the attainment of clear understanding. Once that great gift is won, it is an additional boon to be able to communicate and share one’s interests and discoveries with the world at large. This is because there is no end to the chain of revelation. There will never be an end to the journey of discovery and awakening. One find leads to a second; one “Eureka” moment paves the way to another; one person’s life struggle gives purpose to another seeker’s adventure. What truly bonds one human being to another is not blood but ideas.
We may traverse valleys, mountain ranges, and oceans, as did Meriwether Lewis, or we may negotiate more abstract landscapes—those of heart, mind, and soul. If we study nature we end up finding out more about ourselves. If we study other people—other nations, races, and tribes—we end up knowing a great deal more about our own existence. We also find out how many obstacles stand in the way of our goal. We become familiar with the stench of deception, the shades of falsehood, the hideous complexion of lies. We perfect our ability to discern truth because we become so familiar with its opposite. We come upon the truth because we have become immune to everything that stands in contradistinction to it. Our minds receive the gift of truth once we reject everything that takes its place or attempts to stand in its stead. Genius and enlightenment rise from no other foundation and take seed in no other “soil” than the mind with zero tolerance for the false and contrived.
Sadly, most people don’t lose much sleep over the existence of obscene people or institutes hell-bent on keeping secret the facts about our world. Even when most people are told that crimes—such as those revealed in these pages—have occurred, they don’t let it get under their skin. They are more likely to retort, So what? What can I do about it? A few old relics went missing. The last surviving member of an ancient and mysterious race finally passed away, taking his knowledge with him. Okay, that’s tough. History books give us a deliberately skewed view of the past. A high-placed official’s ego got out of control, and he took liberties with valuable data. It happens! He’s long dead, so nothing can be done. All too often this is what we get. All too often there is no public uprising, outcry, or demand for restitution.
Having said that, one positive outcome is possible. Regardless of how much time has elapsed, we can at least learn who was who, and who did what. We can learn about past underhanded machinations so that we are less likely to fall for similar antics in our own age. Additionally, the names of great men and women, who in their own time defended the truth and had the good of humanity at heart, can be remembered and honored. In my mind, this is what particularly distinguishes this book.
Of additional interest to me are the author’s questions about the origin of various important Native American tribes, such as the deeply spiritual Missouri Mandans (first encountered in 1797), and the even more ancient and mysterious Mound Builders of Ohio. His work makes the reader acutely aware of important problems concerning ancient American history. How did the earliest humans get to the continent of America? Where did they come from? What compelled them to vacate their original habitats? What did the ancients say about their own origins? What are the most important differences between the many Native American tribes?
Why do so many tribes (of both the Southern and the Northern Hemispheres) speak of extraterrestrial visitation, giants, and evil angels whose diabolical behavior compelled the gods to send a cataclysm to wreck the world? Why did certain tribes (Kogi, Iroquois, Cherokee, Hopi, Pueblo, Seneca, Apache, and others) prophesy a coming age of severe moral and spiritual decline? Why were ancient Chinese coins found in the state of Washington? Did the Ainu people (the prehistoric inhabitants of China) once frequent the northwestern United States? Why is the language of the Mandan people so similar to Gaelic? Why were the garments of Mandan women found to be similar to those of Nordic women? Who built the ziggurats, temples, and precisely positioned sacerdotal cities of Mexico? Who were the Olmecs? Who was the so-called Feathered Serpent, and why was he described as being of pale complexion? On and on go the questions.
Naturally no single book or encyclopedia can ever hope to provide us with complete answers to these kinds of questions. Having said that, the authors of this book have done justice to most of them. They warrant my acknowledgment for even asking questions of this kind and for bravely considering controversial theories in response. This work certainly shows us that currently we do not have all the answers to the many mysteries raised, at least not from official sources. More crucially, in all likelihood, we will never get our answers as long as the present academic status quo remains intact and unchallenged. The findings herein stress that even when solutions are proffered by open-minded and intelligent people, they are all too often shot down in flames. It is quite a challenge to come upon a truth after decades of searching and labor. It is also a challenge to transmit that truth to humanity. The latter struggle often proves more laborious than the former.
I have personally found this to be the case. I too have dealt with similar mysteries and conundrums about America’s past in my own book titled The Irish Origins of Civilization. In volume one, in the chapter “American Arya,” I briefly cover some of the sensational discoveries of Augustus Le Plongeon and Barry Fell. The earthshaking finds of these men clearly show us that ancient Europeans had indeed visited and perhaps even settled in the Americas. Furthermore, in my “Irish Origins” and “Atlantis” volumes I referred to a book titled Fair Gods and Stone Faces by Constance Irwin that I have kept in my possession since the 1980s. The author of this hard-to-find masterpiece provides ample evidence of the presence of white people in South America, people regarded by Toltec, Maya, and Inca sages as the bringers of civilization. And like those southern tribes, the Mandans, Zuni, Hopi, and other pre-Columbian tribes of North America also spoke of a worldwide cataclysm that drove their terrified ancestors under ground.
Before that time, before the antediluvian world was destroyed, the nations and races were constellated. They lived together, without division, on a great continent in the Atlantic region. It was from this ancient land, say the legends, that the godlike people came, the land of Pahána—or “lost white brother.” Are we to disregard these accounts as yet more “myths”? Are we to pretend that the Olmec stone heads and vast megalithic ruins of Easter Island, Chaco Canyon, Palenque, Cuzco, and the Bolivian Andes (not to mention those in Ireland, northern India, and Egypt) are merely figments of our imagination?
As to this book’s main theme, we can be fairly certain that Meriwether Lewis was murdered. Personally, I suspect Thomas Jefferson and his crew, but if Aaron Burr and his gang turn out to be the culprits it won’t surprise me in the least. Each reader must come to his or her own conclusions on the controversy. In any case, I can assure the reader that the names “Lewis and Clark” elicited no glazed expressions when I was in school. In my day, every school kid in England and Ireland knew their names. The eyes of most boys and girls lit up once they were mentioned, and we listened with fascination when our history or geography teachers recounted the story of their harrowing adventures and exploits. Their grueling traversals and terrifying encounters thrilled us long before the advent of Hollywood’s make-believe Indiana Jones, that’s for sure. Therefore, it is with pride that I write this foreword for this fine book. Not only was I eager to discover the truth about Meriwether Lewis’s life and death, but I also consider it a duty to assist in the restoration of the governor’s good name and reputation. It is a noble thing to honor great men and
women of the past, particularly those whose contributions have either been forgotten or deliberately downplayed by humanity’s scurrilous Machiavellian misleaders.
Governor Lewis apparently suffered the same fate as many other ardent souls who labored to discover the truth about humankind’s origins. He went the way of Wilhelm Reich, who discovered the secrets of the spirit-body connection; and of Raymond Royal Rife, who discovered how to obliterate cancerous disease.
Meriwether Lewis’s discoveries suffered the same fate as those of Augustus Le Plongeon, Gerald Massey, Reverend Robert Taylor, E. A. Wallis Budge, Immanuel Velikovsky, L. A. Waddell, Comyns Beaumont, Barry Fell, Professor Thomas L. Thompson, and so many other geniuses and pioneers I could mention. The tribulations of these men must be reviewed. Injustices against their names and reputations must be set aright. It is a lofty undertaking that must be made with courage and indefatigable passion. The great work of exploration and restoration continues. Truth Against the World!
MICHAEL TSARION
Born in Northern Ireland, Michael Tsarion is an expert on the occult histories of Ireland and America. He has made the deepest researches into Atlantis, the origins of evil, and the Irish origins of civilization. He is author of Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation; Astro-Theology and Sidereal Mythology; and The Irish Origins of Civilization. He has had numerous radio and television appearances, including the Syfy channel’s documentary Quest for Atlantis.
Introduction
Some of the most crucial tales of American history are contained in the journals of Meriwether Lewis, explorer, historian, scientist, and soldier. But behind the tales of frontier bluster and adventure are stories that are far more fascinating. These tales have haunted academics and historians for decades—stories of lost cultures, strange monoliths, anachronistic artifacts, and enigmatic races found in the shadows and cracks between America’s official versions of history. The death of Meriwether Lewis, his exploration of the American wilderness, and many of the discoveries that lie along his path are steeped in mystery.