Of the thirteen sons of Joktan, Obal was the NUMBER, and together with this nation of people: Joktan, his wife Elisheva, their thirteen sons, the son′s wives together with a great crowd of children all packed their belongings, loaded them on their animal drawn carts and did leave their previous homeland region of Mesopotamia to proceeded to accomplish something that no other family nor individual had ever done before; that is to journey across a vast uncharted region of the Earth, known today as the continent of Asia.

And yet, when their migrations arrived at the shores of the North Pacific Ocean, their Journey On did not end there, but, that Journey continued across Beringia over a land bridge onto a new land area, which land had previously been entirely unbeknownst to them prior to their arrival. Nevertheless, that new land area that they ventured into would later come to be called by the men of our time, the North American continent.

Consequently, that first migration, which, also according to this world′s Wise Men, likely "was initiated from the ancient city called Ur of the Chaldean, and did happen long ago in the history of mankind, possible as early as 2200 BCE."

Methinks, most all of what today′s university trained students are taught and subsequently believe are based upon the personal beliefs, abstract theory and sometimes pure guesswork of the scholars (wise men) of this world and almost never upon empirical evidence, which is by data collection and physical evidence rater than assumed to be true.

Now, as to the truth of the above quoted words, we can not be entirely certain in full detail, not only where that migration began, nor the precise year it was initiated, no, there seems to be a lack of empirical evidence to prove those parameters of that statement.

However, the multitudes of physical evidence concerning the crossing of the land bridge by those ancient wayƒarers indicate that this event in mankind′s history did occur. Furthermore, it is just as certain that those ancient travelers are now the North American indigenous people known as the Algonquian nation of people.

Yes, absolutely! The evidence shows us that those people did arrive upon this continent after walking across the Asia continent, then walking across the Beringia land bridge, those travelers did walk inland throughout many areas of the North American continent, and subsequently continued to explore and settle in their homelands far and wide across the north, south and eastern lands of within this continent.

Previously, some weeks before crossing the land bridge, in the evening of one day, after making camp, Joktan′s firstborn son, Almodad, approached his father to tell him that he and his family have decided to take a separate path in the morning upon their departing from this campsite.

Upon the morrow, Joktan, instead of breaking camp, chose instead to remain in that camp for several more days in order to visit with his son, his son′s wife, and his grandsons so that he may bid them all a fond farewell. Too, Joktan during each evening at the fire for gathering, did gather all of the Almodad′s children in order to tell them again all the words of the Story Keepers.

After several days of camping and sharing with all of his family but especially with the family of Almodad, there came the time, when, in the evening after the fire of the family gathering had been lit and the sons together with their families had all arrived to take their place by this fire of gathering, when Joktan stands up in from of his entire family, and announces to all of his sons:

Upon first light of morning, I shall break camp and follow this journey further to the land to which God leads me. He then continued, Any who wish to accompany me may do so and I warmly welcome you, however Almodad, your older brother, has informed me that he will not continue with us because he desires to make the land here his homeland. So, I beg each and every one of you to approach both him and his family members and give them the kiss of love, the embrace of well wishes and the hope for the future to meet again at that time when God will restore the paradise for us all.

The next morning, Joktan and all of those whom chose to continue on the path with Joktan left out of that campsite to follow the path eastward towards there new homeland. These same departing of paths would occur again later again several more times after the crossing of the land bridge, often upon arriving at a big river or a great lake. Thus every time Joktan would be informed by one of his sons, that such sons would not be continuing eastward on the path with Joktan, but would be departing paths, Joktan would issue the call to all of his sons to stop, continue in the camp and that their time in that camp would always be extended for several more days in order for Joktan to repeat to the children the what he had been appointed to do as the Story Keeper.

Yes, it happened first on the east side of the land bridge and again not long after crossing Beringia, when at one of the first camps during the evening fire gathering, that another one of Joktan′s sons, Sheleph, approaches his father and tells Joktan that he had talked with his family and they have decided, upon breaking this camp, they would head east downriver to the coast and then south along the coast to the first well sheltered bay and there will make this their homeland.

So, on that occasion, after Joktan learned that Sheleph was going to leave the main contingent, Joktan tells Sheleph that he will not be leaving in the morning, but that he will continue to camp here for several more days, so that he can tell all of Sheleph′s family goodbye, and most importantly, so that he would have one last opportunity, as he had planned to do with all of his sons upon their departing paths, to tell these of his sons of his and their grandsons and great grandsons all of the words of the Story Keepers; this being an appointment which he had been entrusted with by his great-grandfather, and which words have been passed down from our most-great grandfather, Seth, son of First Man, who in his life did gather to his mind and heart, and to keep these important stories concerning the lessens learned from a long life of obeying his God and Father. Too, he did bespeak of these Stories to his sons, and his grandsons and their sons as of as he could do so.

Later, when Seth was old in years, over nine hundred, he then passed the position of Story Keeper down to his grandson, Lamech, who then served as the Story Keeper for more than six hundred years. When Lamech became old in years, he passed the position of the Story Keeper to his grandson Shem, son of Noah who was then appointed as the third Story Keeper, who when he was about 600 years of age, appoints two of his descendants to continue with his appointment to keep telling the stories from our ancestors. Thus, the Forth Story Keeper are two, each of which would depart onto their separate life paths, and each of which would continue to tell their descendants the stories about from whence we came. Shem had chosen the two sons of Eber, (son of Shelah, son of Arpachashad, son of Shem) to be the next Story Keepers. Eber′s two sons are Peleg and his younger brother Joktan.

Peleg was the first born of Eber and later came to have an important role within The People of God during his time and life journey, but, his role, although quite important in its scope during the pre-Christian period, is not one discussed in this narrative but is found in another story. ² However, the narrative in this volume is the life journey of the Story Keeper known as Joktan, also which is important in its scope for those who are known as the indigenous people of North America, but especially the Algonquian nations of people today.

At one lake, which the People name Yutalizahelihitkuk (now Athabasca Lake), Joktan makes camp between two rivers (now known as the Peace River and the Slave River) and is planning to take the second waterway upriver upon the morrow in the directions of the mountains. Here while the nation is in this camp, Joktan′s son Obal approaches him to tell him that he will not be leaving upriver with Joktan but wants to stay here in these well watered lowlands to continue fishing from the lakes that abound in this region.

That night at the fire of gathering, when all of the People have come close for the fire′s warmth, Joktan begins again to tell the stories of each of the previous

When Obal departs from the camp, he moves further to the southeast along the lowland lakes region, in an area with an immense forest along a large lake, one with much game in the forest and big fish in the lake. Here, his descendants live and this region becomes the primary homeland for those who today are know as the Algic language people.

Over the years spent in this land, the sons of Obal have expanded their homeland around the Great Lakes region both around the north side as well as the south side; southeast into the Mississippi River Valley and have hunted throughout most of the Canadian eastern snow forests and boreal forests.

Some of descendants from the Obal Nation now choose live in the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota and are known as the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, also known as the Miskwaagamiiwi-Zaagaiganing. This federally recognized tribe is part of the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe/Chippewa people, who have lived in the region for centuries. The Red Lake Band is unique among tribes within the United States because it was never subject to the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887, allowing it to maintain a closed reservation where all land is held in common by the tribe.

The reservation spans more than 1260 square miles (806,592 acres, with the largest portion in Beltrami County and a smaller section in Clearwater County. The tribal communities include Red Lake, Ponemah, Redby, and Little Rock, each with its own cultural and economic activities. The 2020 census reported that the reservation was home to more than 5,500 individuals.

Red Lake Reservation has some widely scattered properties in northwest Minnesota, but the vast majority of the Reservation is located around Lower and Upper Red Lake, which is one of the largest lakes in the United States. The land area of the Reservation is located mainly around Lower Red Lake and west of that and Upper Red Lake. The land is covered by prime forest. In 1945 seventy percent of the Northwest Angle in Minnesota was put into trust for the Red Lake Chippewa.

Red Lake the sixteenth largest lakes in North America, is the largest natural freshwater lake entirely within Minnesota, spanning about 444 square miles and divided into Upper and Lower Red Lake. Red Lake has a maximum depth of about 35 feet and a surface elevation of 1,178 feet above sea level.

The outlet of Red Lake is controlled by a dam at the western edge of lower Red Lake, which outlet forms the beginning of the Red Lake River.

The name Red Lake is translated from the Ojibwe language word Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan, which literally translates to "Lake with its water be colored red."

Red Lake is a proglacial lake, which a body of water formed directly in front of, along the margin of, or immediatately beyond a glacier of ice sheet. At one time, Red Lake as well as Lake of the Woods were both part of the much larger Glacial Lake Agassiz.

While overnighting in the city of Bemidji, Minneosota to rest up from a previous day of diving a very long distance, I was arriving at the d-mart, go out of the jammer to open the hood and pull one of the relays to stop the engine and a woman waking by asks me if I was have car troubles. I tell her, "It′s and old vehicle, now more than thirty years old, but no, i am not having any problems with it, well, not out of the ordinary." She tells me her name is Helen and her daughter is Barb. I then say that they look like Native Americans. Helen tells me that they are Native Americans, that she is from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.