Native americans found europeans long before europeans discovered america.

Our stories of the Seventh Prophecy tell us that the Ojibwe people once lived along the Atlantic Ocean in what is now New Foundland, Nova Scotia, Maine and as far south as Virginia. Many histories commonly tell of the visits of men of the light-skinned race to this area as early as 1000 AD. But long before this it was Native Americans who had visited Europe, Ireland as far as the North Sea.

Its a very little known fact that there were seafaring cultures in the Americas as long ago as 7,500 years ago. There's a documented story in Norway of a strange looking sea craft arriving sometime in the late 900s carrying 3 individuals unlike anyone the locals had ever seen. They were described as dark skinned with straight black hair and no facial hair, but with painted faces and headdresses that contained features and beads. Their clothing was made from animal skins that were foreign to Norway. Of course they spoke a language no one had ever heard, but from what could be made out through hand gestures, these individuals were on a fishing expedition and got lost. After a few days they reboarded their craft which is described as long like a viking vessel, but seemingly cut out from a huge tree trunk, and left, never to be heard from again.

Its believed today that these people were native americans from the northeastern America's, which is precisely where the advanced seafaring cultures existed following the same routes that brought the norse to the americas in the 1100s.

Wait, it gets better.

In around 1470 Native Americans, at least a native american man and a woman, had landed in Galway Bay, Ireland and Christopher Columbus spoke with them. This is the knowledge that made Columbus so certain that he could sail westward across the Atlantic and find another land. He thought it would be the Orient and India. He later learned many other sources to support this concrete evidence but the firstperson testimony of these Native American explorers was "hard evidence" that anchored all of his research.

The books that Columbus read also referred to "Indians" who had landed in Germany with merchandise. In his copy of Aeneas' Historia rerum he wrote:

If it was a great distance [from India to Germany] the vessels could not pass without ill fortune; but this proves that it is near at hand.

He also wrote in the margins of his copy of Historia,

People from Katayo came towards the east. We saw many notable things, and specifically in Galway, Ireland, a man and his wife.

We can see from his notations that Columbus learned of the relatively short distance to exotic, unknown lands westward across the Atlantic. The mythical "courage" that has been assumed was actually an assurance that was the result of his contact with Native Americans who had survived a crossing of the Atlantic from the west. Therefore, he knew he would survive a crossing of the Atlantic from the east to the west. He just thought it would be China and India and was very confused when he arrived in the New World.