Full Description
Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains. Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research, and classical philology, it uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introductory Note by Cyclone Covey
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Richard Mack Bettis
Introduction
Chapter 1: Secret of the Keetoowah Priests
Chapter 2: Around the World
Chapter 3: DNA
Chapter 4: Ancient History of the Indians
Chapter 5: America's Middle Ages
Chapter 6: James Adair and the Lost Tribes of Israel
Chapter 7: The Crown of Tennessee
Chapter 8: She Who Walks with the Little People
Chapter 9: Yom Kippur with the Cherokee
Chapter 10: Sequoyan Syllabary
Chapter 11: Phoenix Rising
Chapter 12: Sand Mountain
Epilogue
Appendices
A. Melungeon Male Data
B. Melungeon Mitochondrial Results
C. Surnames
D. Cherokee DNA Haplogroup Data
E. Anomalous Cherokee Haplogroups
F. "Anomalous" Cherokee Haplogroup Distribution
G. A Ptolemy in Uruguay
H. Ancient Greeks in Native America
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
