Walum Olum Describes the Algonquins Defeat of a Giant Race of Mound Builders

The Walam Olum is a part of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virgina history that has long been ignored. Why? It chronicles the Algonquin peoples entering the present states of Indiana, Michigan and Ohio from their original homes in Canada. It tells of the great battles fought with the Alligewi for possession of the Ohio Valley.  The last battle of the Algonquin Shawnee and the King of the giants, "Yellow Hair" is described by the Shawnee.  www.nephilimgiants.net : Indian Legends of Yellow Hair: King of the Mound Builders

History, Manners and Customs of Indian Nations

Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States by John Heckwelder 1876

      The Lenni Lenape (according to the traditions handed down to them by their ancestors) resided many hundred years ago, in a very distant country in the western part of the American continent. For some reason, which I do not find accounted for, they determined on migrating to the eastward, and accordingly set out together in a body.  After a very long journey, and many nights encampments by the way, they at length arrived on the Namaesi Sipu (fish river), where they fell in with the Mengwe (Iroquois), who had likewise emigrated from a distant country, and had struck upon the river somewhat higher up. Their object was the same with that of the Delawares; they were proceeding on to the eastward, until they should find a country that pleased them. The spies which the Lenape had sent forward for the purpose of reconnoitering, had long before their arrival discovered that the country east of the Mississippi was inhabited by a very powerful nation, who had many large towns built on the great rivers flowing through their land. These people (as I was told) called themselves Talligeu or Talligewi. Colonel John Gibson however, a gentleman who has a thorough knowledge of the Indians, and speaks several of their languages, is of opinion that they were not called Talligewi, but Alligewi, and it would seem that he is right, from the traces of their name which still remain in the country, the Allegheny River and mountains having indubitably been named after them. The Delewares still call the former Alligewi Sipu, the River of the Alligewi. We have adopted, I know not for what reason, its Iroquois name, Ohio, which the French had literally translated into La Belle Riviere, The Beautiful River. A branch of it, however, still retains the ancient name Allegheny.

Many wonderful things are told of this famous people. They are said to have been remarkably tall and stout, and there is a tradition that there were giants among them, people of a much larger size than the tallest of the Lenape.