#NativeAmerican

Native American Antiquity

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...

Preserving the Culture: Redbird Smith

By 1840, relocation of the Cherokee people from their homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi was complete. James Mooney...

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...

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 5: Arrogant and Proud Barbarians

In his account of the Soto expedition, “The Inca” [see Part 1] gives what I believe to be the most accurate and eloquent account of the...

First Contact: The Soto Expedition, Part 4: Panfilo de Narvaez

Inspired by the stories of Cabeza de Vaca, who had survived in North America after becoming a castaway and just returned to Spain, in...

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 1: Hernando de Soto

This is part of a series of articles by Courtney Miller on the subject of “First Contact”–the initial contact of the Native Americans...

White Buffalo, Part 5: Lone Star

A true white buffalo happens only once every ten million births, according to the National Bison Association, but many white buffalo in...

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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