The Original People of North America

Messages to Humanity

The Original People of North America

Sage: Read what the Urantia Book says about my people

From The Urantia Book:

Part II - The Local Universe; Paper 51 - The Planetary Adams

The race of dominance during the early ages of the inhabited worlds is the

red man, who ordinarily is the first to attain human levels of

development. But while the red man is the senior race of the planets, the

succeeding colored peoples begin to make their appearances very early in

the age of mortal emergence.

The earlier races are somewhat superior to the later. The Life Carriers

impart the full bestowal of the living energies to the initial or red race, and

each succeeding evolutionary manifestation of a distinct group of mortals

represents variation at the expense of the original endowment.

Part III - The History of Urantia; Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races of Color

The Red Man: These peoples were remarkable specimens of the human

race. They were a most intelligent group and were the first to develop a

tribal civilization and government. They were always monogamous.

About 85 thousand years ago, the comparatively pure remnants of the red

race went en masse across to North America, and shortly thereafter the

Bering land isthmus sank, thus isolating them. No red man ever returned

to Asia.

When the red man crossed over into America, he brought along much of

the teachings and traditions of his early origin. But in a short time after

reaching the Americas, the red men began to lose sight of these

teachings, and there occurred a great decline in intellectual and spiritual

culture. Very soon these people again fell to fighting so fiercely among

themselves that it appeared that these tribal wars would result in the

speedy extinction of this remnant of the comparatively pure red race.

Because of this retrogression the red men seemed doomed when, about

65 thousand years ago, Onamonalonton appeared as their leader and

spiritual deliverer. He brought temporary Peace among the American red

men and revived their worship of the Great Spirit. Onamonalonton lived to

be 96 years of age and maintained his headquarters among the great

redwood trees of California. Many of his later descendants have come

down to modern times among the Blackfoot Indians.