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Quote:Even Hawaii was named by Muslims who arrived on those beautiful Islands.
Lu-Lu means pearls in Arabic and Honolulu means "City of Pearls".
Many place names of Arabic origin are found in areas where native Americans lived. Even today some Cherokee words are identical to Arabic or Turkish words. For example, the Cherokee word for mother-Ana Ta -is identical to the Turkish word with the same meaning. An easily recognizable Cherokee _expression of Arabic origin is Vallah olum (Wallahu Aalam) which means "Allah Knows Best".
Sequoyah, the Cherokee Native-American leader of the nineteenth century, is best known for inventing Cherokee Syllabary in 1821.
As the leader of Western Cherokee, Sequoyah was a peace-loving man who strived to make his people literate, and made substantial effort to unite them.
He retained his customary turban and long clothing, typical of Muslims, while on official mission to Washington, D.C. for treaty negotiations. He was the subject of lectures by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. His famous portrait was done in 1828 by Charles Bird King in Washington, D.C.
Suquoyah was not alone in wearing the Muslim dress. More than a dozen Native-American leaders of other tribes, including Chippewa, Creek, Iowa, Kansas, Miami, Potawatomi, Sauk & Fox, Seminole, Shawnee, Sioux, Winnebago, and Yuchi, wore the Muslim head dress. Some of them wore distinctly Arab head dresses. Their famous portraits published between 1835 and 1870 confirm this fact.
Some tribes used the word ALLAH to refer to the creator.
The traditional dress code for Indian women includes the kimah and long dresses. For men, the standard fare is turbans and long tops that come down to the knees. If you read any of the old books on Cherokee clothing up until 1832, you will see the men wearing turbans and the women wearing long head coverings.
The last Cherokee's chief (1866) with a Muslim name was --- Ramadhan Ibn Wati. Ramadhan Ibn Wati(popularly known as Stand Watie [1806-71]), who served as a Confederate brigadier general, surrendered his command to the United States on June 23, 1865.
His son Saladin Watie served on Southern Cherokee delegation to Washington, D.C. to sign a new treaty with the United States at the end of Civil War. He died mysteriously at the age of twenty-one. (Saladin is an anglicized name for Salahuddin, the famous Muslim Sultan who liberated Jerusalem from the crusaders in 1187).
Cities across the United States and Canada bear names that are of Indian and Islamic derivation. The name Tallahassee is alleged to have Islamic roots with the word Allah being used. In Cherokee, we refer to ourselves as Ani Getowagi or 'I am a township person " Which is 90% Arabic.
A native American Muslim told us there is a city in Arizona called "Allah".
Perhaps the greatest evidence of Islam amongst the native Americans is in the usage of the personal Holy name of the Lord of Abraham - Allah.
There is no way they could have used the word "ALLAH" unless they had direct contact with Islam since the Holy name of God has been lifted from everyone else.
