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Native American Antiquity

Preserving the Culture: Trail of Tears

Thomas Jefferson The writing was on the wall! By the early 1800’s, even Thomas Jefferson, who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the...

Preserving the Culture: Iroquois Great Law of Peace

Iroquois Confederacy Constitution Wampum Belt In 1451, according to many scholars, a solar eclipse marked the founding of the confederacy...

Preserving the Culture: Andrew Jackson

The year 1828 was a major turning point for the Cherokee people and the preservation of Cherokee culture. It was the year that Andrew...

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...

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