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Kagali [February]: The Bony Moon

FEBRUARY: Bony Moon Kagali Traditional time of personal-family feast for the ones who had departed this world. A family meal is prepared...

Unolvtani [January]: The Cold Moon

Note to readers of Native American Antiquity: This article marks a change. This year, the journal will change from weekly to monthly...

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...

Genetically Pure Buffalo Return

While driving down the road recently, I heard a news flash that purebred buffalo have been genetically cleansed by Colorado State...

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...

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