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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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.

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.

Meet the Kangaroos of Native American DNA. Host Pete Ferrand reads from a chapter in Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong about the so-called "anomalous" Cherokees who don't fit an ABC definition of American Indian.

Can genealogy be funny? It can with Melungeons. Pete Ferrand travels to Newmans Ridge, Tennessee, where he witnesses a battle over the definition of the term Melungeon. Reading by Ginger Cuculo of the chapter "Cyberfeud on the Ridge" from Ancestors and Enemies: Essays on Melungeons, by Phyllis E. Starnes and Donald N. Yates Ginger Cuculo, audiobook narrator.