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

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

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

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

I recently had the privilege of visiting the Medicine Wheel atop Bighorn Mountain in Wyoming. It is the first time I have gotten to see...

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...

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

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...

The White Buffalo has been the most sacred living thing to the Plains Indians for over 2,000 years. It symbolizes the promised return of...