Cherokee

Cherokee North American tribe, set in the ancient territory of the Louisiana could have near-oriental origins. It's what some members of the tribe believed, according to them, in their oral legend, it is hand down that their ancestors came from the sea from a place called “Masada”.. This is the incredible declaration of Beverly Baker Northup, the spokesman of the moderns Cherokee. According to Northup, the proof that the Masada of the Cherokee legends is Masada of Judea, on the shore of the Dead Sea, would be not only in the ancient legends but also in some resemblances between Cherokee and Semitic words. So, Beverly Northup thinks there is a connection between his people and the Hebrew set around Masada during the Roman Age, who, for instance, plaited their hair like North American Indians. The legend, kept alive between Cherokee people, is the one of Sicarii ran away from Masada. They were the ancestors that managed to cross the wide expanse of water till to reach the modern land...