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Native American Antiquity

Native America Skies: Lunar Standstill in Chaco Canyon

In any given month, the rising moon swings between two extremes on the eastern horizon, similar to the oscillation of the rising sun...

Native American Skies: Lunar Standstill at Chimney Rock

During the month, the moon rises at different points across the eastern horizon. When it reaches the farthest point north it pauses, or...

Native American Skies: Lunar Standstill

Have you noticed how fast the earth has been moving lately? Probably not, but in fact the earth moves faster in the winter than in the...

A Cherokee Valentine

Saturday is Valentines Day, a national holiday in the United States, but what does it mean to Native Americans? For the Cherokee in...

Children’s Stories: Native American vs European

The Europeans called their stories “Fairy Tales”, probably because they harkened back to a time when magical creatures existed. Native...

First Contact: The Soto Expedition, Part 3: Ponce de Leon

Hernando de Soto was not the first to make contact with Native Americans in Florida. As “The Inca” [Part 1] tells in his chronicles of...

First Contact: The Soto Expedition, Part 2: Like Deer

In 1537, after amassing a sizable fortune as a conquistador, slave trader, and business man in South America, Hernando de Soto quickly...

Native American Skies: Winter Solstice

The sky has been an important indicator of what is happening and what will happen on earth for ancient peoples all over the world for as...

White Buffalo, Part 7: Eastern Herds

On some of the early drafts of my novel, “The First Raven Mocker”, witch is book 1 of the “Cherokee Chronicles” series, I was criticized...

Shavano Valley Petroglyphs, Part 5: Reading the Signs

Up until his death in 2000, LaVan Martineau devoted over forty years to unlocking the secrets behind the petroglyph (and pictograph)...

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