GOODING, Idaho, Jan. 9, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- History teaches students that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas and Native Americans passed to North America via an ice bridge from Asia. This is all wrong, writes Walter Baucum, who believes the real natives of America are Israelites. In his new book, The History and Future of Israelite America (now available through 1stBooks), he shows readers that America was visited and settled by "lost tribes" of Israel well before American Indians.
"(I) boldly accuse America's historians and archeologists of mysteriously failing or deliberately refusing to teach these truths for centuries and point out how even our own government has bought into the farce that Asians are the 'native' Americans," Baucum says.
The History and Future of Israelite America rejects the idea that Columbus was the first European to reach America and embraces the idea of America's Israelite ancestors, from Abraham all the way to Noah's son, Shem, and Sumerians. Baucum shows "proof upon proof" that the continent was not "found by a few lost and shipwrecked seamen sailing the crosswinds and ocean currents of the world." Instead, it was a deliberate outpost for all the great empires that included trade, settlement and exploitation by countries from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Scandinavia for at least 3,000 years, he explains.
"In vivid, easy to read, well documented detail, (I) show that our people were here first, that we are one of the so called 'Lost Tribes' of Israel, that Israelites were great empire builders, that English can be traced to Hebrew and therefore is the oldest language on Earth, that the Vatican knew about America 300 years before Columbus," Baucum states.
In retirement, the former schoolteacher began researching ancient history. The culmination of that research is The History and Future of Israelite America, his first book.
"(T)he true history of our nation goes back over 3,000 years, (and) we are one of the so called 'Lost Tribes' of Israel...(T)his is our land by right of settlement and Covenant Promise ... Columbus was the last person to discover America," Baucum says.
He lives in Idaho with his wife, Marie. He spent 30 years in education and loves to hunt, fish and spend time outdoors when he is not researching and writing.
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