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The legend was thrown into disrepute by the Caernarfonshire explorer John Evans who was sponsored by the brilliant but eccentric scholar and master forger, Iolo Morgannwg and the London-Welsh Gwyneddigion Society.

Click Here to read a lecture prepared and given by the late Dr Islyn Thomas OBE to the Madison Rotary Club in New Jersey in 1967.
Click Here to read the response by R. Gwynn Davies, Chairman of Antur Waunfawr (Waunfawr Venture), a community based charitable trust located in the village where John Evans' Father was a Methodist minister.
Click Here to read the response by Menna Jones, Chief Executive of Antur Waunfawr.
So, was John Evans a reliable witness regarding the existence of Welsh-Indians? I believe that on balance, the evidence suggests that he was not.

His motives may have been many and complex. As a Welsh radical, it is unlikely he would have felt any allegiance to what he may have perceived as an English Crown. Even today, Gwynedd is a stronghold of the Welsh Nationalist Movement.

He may have resented the lack of support for his expedition by his fellow Welshmen? He may have been swayed by pecuniary gain? He may even have expected to find a tribe of white-men fluent in his native tongue - a highly improbable occurrence. Who are we to judge? Yet, Evans' evidence has been used repeatedly to disparage the story of Prince MADOC and the White Indians.

If, however, Evans was telling the truth, then he has been done a great injustice, but it is as nothing to the injustice he has perpetrated against History, the Welsh and the Mandans, if he did not tell the truth.

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