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...

The year 1828 was a major turning point for the Cherokee people and the preservation of Cherokee culture. It was the year that Andrew...

In the early 1970’s, Dr. Jacob Bronowski defined the “Ascent of Man” and the levels of human development. He recognized that the...

As the fever of independence was growing amongst the colonists of North America, so was the fever of expansion. In the late eighteenth...

Over the centuries, since the Cherokee people’s first contact with Europeans, there have been many attempts to preserve the pre-Columbian...

The treaty of 1721 [refer to part 1: Preserving the Culture: Introduction] between the Cherokee and the British, marked the beginning of...

In ancient times, the Cherokee culture was preserved and passed on to each generation through ceremony and oral stories. It was an...