Barangkali ada gunanya buat teman-teman yang sedang mendalami sejarah Islam di Amerika Utara, dan sekalian barangkali ada yang ingin men-check validitas-nya. (Terutama buat Mang Acu di Bandung) Salam, Roni >From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >To: "Progressive Muslims Network (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Digging for the Red Roots; a Cherokee Muslim speaks. > >Friends, > >The attached article was posted on BIC News. It makes interesting reading= > on >a subject that has escaped the attention of most North American Muslims. >(Exceptions being Imam Abdullah Hakim Quick and Dr. Youseff Mroueh). > >Tarek Fatah >------------------------------------------------ >Digging for the Red Roots > >by Eagle Sun Walker (Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El) > >My name is Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El and I am a Cherokee Blackfoot American >Indian who is Muslim. I am known as Eagle Sun Walker. I serve as a Pipe >Carrier Warrior for the Northeastern Band of Cherokee Indians in New York >City. > >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 never been mentioned in any of the history books. There a= >re >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 communities in which they lived. > >Treaties such as Peace >and Friendship that was signed on the Delaware River in the year 1787 bea= >r >the signatures of Abdel-Khak and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah. This treaty detai= >ls >our continued right to exist as a community 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 fram= >ed >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 into >more details about the various tribes, their languages; in which some are >influenced by Arabic, Persian, Hebrew words. Almost all of the tribes=92 >vocabulary include the word Allah. > >The traditional dress code for Indian >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 covering= >s. >The last Cherokee chief who had a Muslim name was Ramadhan Ibn Wati of th= >e >Cherokees in 1866. > >Cities across the United States and Canada bear names that are of Indian >and Islamic derivation. Have you ever wondered what the name Tallahassee >means? It means that He Allah will deliver you sometime in the future. > >Article Taken from: > >MESSAGE, July 1996 (Copyrights Message Magazine as long as proper >acknowledgement has been stated, it can be reproduced) >
