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Native American Antiquity

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...

The Natchez Story: Pre-history

An artists illustration of the Emerald Mound Site, (22 AD 504), a Plaquemine culture mound site in Adams County, Mississippi inhabited...

Cherokee Fables: The Bird Tribes, Part 2

The ancient Cherokee’s connection to the “Bird Tribes” is fascinating and we are so fortunate that the elders and medicine men shared...

Cherokee Fables: The Bird Tribes, Part 1

The sky is the flyway of the bird, whose freedom is to light and go at will … . When evening shadows fall upon the earth and a lone jet...

Cherokee Fables: The Rabbit and the Possum After a Wife

Spring is here and with the month of May comes the season for weddings! The ancient Cherokee told a funny story about the devious rabbit...

Native American Firsts

The January issue of National Geographic magazine is called “The Firsts Issue”. I think that Native Americans might “take issue” with...

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