Most people don’t know, Islam came to North America before Christianity. READ . .from real Americans: Bismillahirahmanirahim 🕯️🌞🙏🏽🧭⭐🎯 A share from a Witchetaw Lenape Muslim. “My name is Chief Tahady and I am a Witchetaw Lenape Tribal of Wattasiyun who is Muslim. I am known as Chief Nine Owl. I serve as a Principle Chief Warrior for the International Tribal Council in Tribal sovereign States There are other Muslims in our group. For the most part, not many people are aware of the (Native American ) contact with Islam that began over one thousand years ago by some of the early Muslim travelers who visited us. Some of these Muslim travelers ended up living among our people. For most Muslims and non-Muslims of today, this type of information is unknown and has been hidden from mention in any of the history books There are many documents, treaties, legislation and resolutions that were passed between 1600s and 1800s that show that Muslims were in fact here and were very active in the comunities in which they lived. Treaties such as Peace and Friendship signed on the Delaware River in the year 1787 bear the signatures of Abdel-Khak and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah and The Treaty of Alliance 1532 By Witchetaw Nations and Wattasiyun Azemour Muhammad This treaty details our continued right to exist as a state in the areas of commerce, maritime shipping, current form of government at that time which was in accordance with Islam. According to a federal court case from the Continental Congress, we help put the breath of life in to the newly framed constitution. All of the documents are presently in the National Archives as well as the Library of Congress. If you have access to records in the state of South Carolina, read the Moors Sundry Act of 1790. In a future article, Inshallah, I will go in to more details about the various tribes, their languages; in which some are influenced by Hierotic and Aramaic. Almost all of the tribes vocabulary include elements of Islam. The traditional dress code for tribal women includes the kimah and long dresses. For men, standard fare is turbans and long tops that come down to the knees. If you were to look at any of the old books on Cherokee clothing up until the time of 1832, you will see the men wearing turbans and the women wearing long head coverings. The last Cherokee chief who had a Muslim name was Ramadhan Ibn Wati of the Cherokees in 1866. Bro Piahana