The Time Traveler’s Suitcase

DNA Consultants

Explore the interface between history, archeology and ancient DNA.

  • 56 minutes 14 seconds
    Children of the Sun

    A chapter on America’s link with the sunken continent of Sundaland, according to the trail of rare genes.

    America’s Euchee Indians, though now much diminished in numbers, claimed to be the oldest indigenous people in the Southeast. DNA Consultants was fortunate to test a sample for them and add it to the database containning profiles of 550 populations around the world. In the 2025 book Countercurrents of Prehistory, two of these Euchee descendants—Bill Bass and Holly McDaniel—are featured, along with their surprising DNA matches. The Euchee Indians, like others discussed in the book, appear to have originated with Austronesians, which came, in turn, from Island Southeast Asia, like the first Cherokees and Polynesians. The stamp of Austronesian and Polynesian culture is still visible in the archeology and anthropology of Southeastern U.S. Indians as well as the Indians who built the Ohio mounds. Austronesian has been called “the third element” in New World civilizations. 

    10 March 2026, 4:19 pm
  • 44 minutes 25 seconds
    The Mother of All Wars: Patriarchy against Matriarchy

    The Mother of All Wars: Patriarchy against Matriarchy with Elisha Daeva. Based on the Writing of Teresa Panther-Yates.


    An exploration of the Goddess as the Universal Mother and Queen of Heaven, drawing on the writing of Teresa Panther-Yates and read by Elisha Daeva. This episode follows Her presence across ancient cultures, sacred symbols, serpents, trees, visionary rites, Female wisdom and the long history of matriarchal traditions.


    It examines how the Female divine was gradually silenced in patriarchal texts, how Her images survived in fragments of poetry, folklore, temples and ancient literature, and how the loss of the Goddess altered society, spirituality and our relationship with Nature. Listeners are invited to rediscover the hidden traces of the Goddess and the deep imbalance created when Her voice was removed from history and prehistory.

    9 December 2025, 2:48 pm
  • 47 minutes 13 seconds
    Why Some Cherokees Have Blond Hair and Blue Eyes

    Scandinavians, Irish, Libyans and Iberians formed part of the ancient sea rovers who helped colonize North America and left their genes among the natives beginning about 1200 BCE. This is the third episode in our ongoing series titled “More Cherokee Descendants Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong."

    9 January 2025, 6:30 pm
  • 35 minutes 36 seconds
    Armenians and Others on the Cherokee Frontier
    Armenians, free blacks, mulattoes, Arabs, Moors, Cannibal Indian tribes and Christian missionaries occupy the Cherokee hinterland in 1680. This is the second episode in our ongoing series titled “More Cherokee Descendants Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast website: dnaconsultants.com/podcast/
    5 January 2024, 11:14 pm
  • 22 minutes 25 seconds
    Surprising Lineages of the Cherokees
    Participants in DNA Consultants’ Cherokee DNA Studies proved to have other lineages than just haplogroup A, B, C, D and sometimes X. The participants’ nonstandard maternal lines confirm the incredible diversity of Cherokees and suggest that various clans came by water from the Old World, not across a hypothetical land-bridge from Asia. This is the first episode from our new series entitled More Cherokee Descendants Prove the Geneticists Wrong. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast website: dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Studies II: More Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/bookstore/cherokee-dna-studies-more-real-people-who-proved-the-geneticists-wrong/
    25 April 2023, 7:24 pm
  • 16 minutes 12 seconds
    Genealogist Donald Yates Uncovers Secrets of Cherokee DNA
    In an interview by Emily Frances, host of the Israeli news show “Holy Land Uncovered,” author and DNA investigator Donald Yates discusses his own family traditions, which combine Cherokee, Choctaw and Sephardic Jewish roots. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/our-tests/cherokee-dna-test/ Cherokee DNA Studies II: More Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong https://dnaconsultants.com/product/bookstore/cherokee-dna-studies-more-real-people-who-proved-the-geneticists-wrong/
    13 October 2022, 9:08 pm
  • 15 minutes 50 seconds
    Native American Wit and Wisdom: Words in the Wind
    It all began in 1998 with Donald and Teresa Yates’s genealogy website “Lost Indian Tribes Southeast.” Fifteen years later, Panther’s Lodge, as the site was called, became a publisher of books about American Indians. The Big Little Book of Native American Wit and Wisdom, compiled by Anna Kolouthon was one of the first produced, and it was followed by an audiobook version narrated by Robert B. Rees. Now comes a video podcast hosted by Pete Ferrand with highlights like “Being Indian Is,” by J.C. High Eagle, Chief Two White Feather’s Advice, “Remarks on Native American Religion” and the Native American Ten Commandments. Special video footage includes an 1895 Sioux Buffalo Dance performance shot by William K.L. Dickson and part of the Shungopavi Buffalo Dance on January 16, 2009, taped by Hopi student Kelly Kessay. Watch the video: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/native-american-wit-and-wisdom-words-in-the-wind/
    20 November 2019, 7:45 pm
  • 42 minutes 56 seconds
    Old World Roots of the Cherokee
    The Cherokee people originated as seven clans arriving in the Ohio Valley in Hellenistic times. Excerpts from Donald Yates and Teresa Yates' book titled Cherokee DNA Studies, read by Pete Ferrand, covering the ancient origins and first languages of the Cherokee and Hopi. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/specials/cherokee-dna-test/
    14 August 2019, 9:04 pm
  • 31 minutes 20 seconds
    DNA Identities and the Wardrobe of the Soul
    A genetic genealogist discusses the evolving state of DNA testing. Pete Ferrand interviews adoptee Jan Franz, a Seneca and Cherokee descendant, on the foibles, wonders and personal revelations of DNA testing, from the Human Genome Project to the advent of ancient DNA. Our podcasts: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/specials/cherokee-dna-test/
    11 July 2019, 12:00 am
  • 33 minutes 14 seconds
    True History of the Creek Indians Part Two
    Richard Thornton continues with his amazing revelations about the Apalache, Euchee, Hitchiti and others in the Southeast. Part Two of Two. The second part and conclusion of Pete Ferrand's interview with Creek Indian Richard Thornton, touching on the Bronze Age Scandinavian entry into the Savannah River, pre-Celtic presence, Minoans in south Georgia, Panoans from Peru about 200 A.D., Itsa Mayas in north Georgia after about 1000 A.D. and remnant of Raleigh's Lost Colony at the Apalache capital as proved by the Eleanor Dare Stones. Thornton attempts also to answer the host's question about why so much of American Indian history is forbidden and suppressed.
    11 June 2019, 6:33 pm
  • 36 minutes 30 seconds
    True History of the Creek Indians
    Creek historian Richard Thornton is interviewed about the Maya, Euchee, Apalache and others in the Southeast. Part One of Two. Host Pete Ferrand interviews Georgia architect and author Richard Thornton about the surprising original diversity of American Indians in the Southern Highlands before they were crassly collapsed into only two federal groups, the Creeks and the Cherokees. When History Channel’s H2 network premiered a new series entitled “America Unearthed,” the opening episode on “American Mayan Secrets” was based on Thornton’s iconoclastic research and out-back rambles around Georgia. It became the network’s highest rated show ever. Thornton also says the story of Indian-White relations could have been – and still might become—much less antagonistic.
    4 June 2019, 11:40 am
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