The Arctic Cultures: Lament for the Dorsets
Americas migrated here starting around 40,000 years ago. Most are believed to have arrived by crossing over from Russia to Alaska. At...
Preserving the Culture: Redbird Smith
By 1840, relocation of the Cherokee people from their homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi was complete. James Mooney...
Preserving the Culture: Trail of Tears
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...
Preserving the Culture: Iroquois Great Law of Peace
Iroquois Confederacy Constitution Wampum Belt In 1451, according to many scholars, a solar eclipse marked the founding of the confederacy...
Preserving the Culture: Andrew Jackson
The year 1828 was a major turning point for the Cherokee people and the preservation of Cherokee culture. It was the year that Andrew...
Preserving the Culture: Elias Boudinot
In the early 1970’s, Dr. Jacob Bronowski defined the “Ascent of Man” and the levels of human development. He recognized that the...
Preserving the Culture: George Washington
As the fever of independence was growing amongst the colonists of North America, so was the fever of expansion. In the late eighteenth...
Preserving the Culture: Adair vs Priber
Over the centuries, since the Cherokee people’s first contact with Europeans, there have been many attempts to preserve the pre-Columbian...
Preserving the Culture: Chief Moytoy
The treaty of 1721 [refer to part 1: Preserving the Culture: Introduction] between the Cherokee and the British, marked the beginning of...
Preserving the Culture: Introduction
In ancient times, the Cherokee culture was preserved and passed on to each generation through ceremony and oral stories. It was an...