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Native American Antiquity

First Thanksgiving: The Aftermath

After 1630, Puritans began pouring in and setting up colonies around present-day Boston. These new colonists were only barely tolerant...

First Thanksgiving: The History of the Wampanoag

Originally, the Pilgrims celebrated thanksgiving as days of prayer. But in 1621, in celebration of surviving the winter, they first...

First Thanksgiving: The History of the Pilgrims

Autumn, 1621, the chief sachem of the Wampanoag tribe, the Massosoit, was interrupted by several of his village’s hunters with news that...

The Mysterious Second Life of Sacagawea

This summer my wife and I vacationed in Wyoming and passed a cemetery claiming to have the grave of Sacagawea (pronounced like “Chicago...

Chief Di’Wali Bowles: Cherokees in Texas

On the surface, it appears that Chief Di’Wali Bowles spent his life running from something trying to find peace. He left his home in...

Chief Di’Wali Bowles: Cherokees in Tejas

On December 16, 1811, a series of intense interplate earthquakes shook the area around New Madrid, Missouri. They are, to this day, the...

Chief “Di’wali” Bowles: Relocation to Arkansas

“In the mid-1700s, the Spanish invited the Ani-Tsalagi, known as Cherokees, to move into their frontier area. The Spaniards offered the...

Chief “Di’Wali” Bowles: The Muscle Shoals Massacre

Di’wali, “Bowl”, also known in history as “John Bowles,” was born around 1756 in the Cherokee town of Little Hiwasee, located in the...

Cherokee Old Settlers

“I have seen my people strive to make a living ever since the last bunch of Cherokees arrived over the trail of tears to the present...

Chiefdom of the Coosa: Abihka Curse

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

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