After his encounter with the Cherokee, De Soto travelled south into present-day Georgia where he found the “Chiefdom of Coosa”. At that...

By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Native American tribes known as the Five Civilized Tribes were living peacefully on their...

Although, there are many who doubt that the Medicine Wheel in Bighorn Mountain, Wyoming is an astronomical calendar, 1200 miles east in...

In previous articles [Medicine Wheels of the Plains Indians and Sacred Geology], I have talked about some of the more popular theories...

Thanks in large part to the movie industry and “wild west” novels, when most people around the world think of American Indians, they most...

I recently had the privilege of visiting the Medicine Wheel atop Bighorn Mountain in Wyoming. It is the first time I have gotten to see...

Americas migrated here starting around 40,000 years ago. Most are believed to have arrived by crossing over from Russia to Alaska. At...

By 1840, relocation of the Cherokee people from their homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi was complete. James Mooney...

Thomas Jefferson The writing was on the wall! By the early 1800’s, even Thomas Jefferson, who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the...

Iroquois Confederacy Constitution Wampum Belt In 1451, according to many scholars, a solar eclipse marked the founding of the confederacy...