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News Updates

Sometimes Richard is just so fast I can't keep up with him.  Here is a listing of articles he has written and are published on other sites.  Our news are updates to happenings in the past year or a subject Richard writes about often!!

 

August 8, 2014 Archeologist William Romain proposes new interpretation of the Great Serpent Mound

June 6, 2014 Tsunami on South Atlantic Coast

May 16, 2014 Major Paleo-American Discovery in Yucatan

May 2, 2014 Did Medieval Irish Colonists Settle in Dixie

April 25, 2014 The Creek-Napoleon Connection

April 17, 2014 The Cherokee-Caribbean Connection

Issue March 31, 2014 We need articles on the Choctaws, Alabama, Caddo, Natchez and Chitimacha!

Issue March 25,  2014 Hiking the Track Rock Archaeological Zone

Issue March 20, 2014 Spanish Archives put first St. Augustine in Georgia

Issue February 22, 2014 Florida Professors Hijack Discovery of Fort Caroline

Issue January 31, 2014 Strange Symbols in Russell County, Alabama

Issue December 22, 2013 Artifact hunters dig up Native grave in Wetumka, Alabama

Issue November 21, 2013 Fort Caroline in Georgia not Florida

Issue October 4, 2013 Copal incense was Burned in Temples of Creeks' Ancestors

August 23, 2013 Grassroots Creek-Cherokee Collaboration gets Results

July 20, 2013 The Rickohockens, Organized Crime on the Virginia Frontier

July 15, 2013 Descendants of Cahokia's Elite Identified or Kofitvchike (Cofitachequi) was the Muskogee word for Catawba

June 19, 2013 French Description of Track Rock Georgia

June 17, 2013 Jewish and Native American DNA ~ Research Project

June 10, 2013 Biochar Garden Terrace - One Year Later

June 5. 2013 The Lies Historical Markers Tell

May 31, 2013 Fined for Wearing Eagle Feather

May 31, 2013 The Southeastern Holocaust: an unsolved case of genocide

May 27, 2013 Real History of the Cherokees

May 14, 2013 How a State Government Erased the Creeks, Shawnee, Koasati and Yuchi from History  Maps

May 9, 2013 The Mesoamerican Origin of the Word, Etowah

May 5, 2013 A Virtual Reality Tour of the Troyville Archaeological Zone

April 19, 2013 What was Really Going on Between 3500 BC and 500 BC

April 19, 2013 Architectural Features Mexico and Georgia

April 8. 2013 Shenandoah Valley Archaeological Sites

April 7, 2013 Link between Creek Mounds to Maya Math

April 2, 2013 When Humans First came to Eastern North America

March 28, 2013 Two Different Versions of Cherokee History Collide

March 27, 2013 The Native American history of the Southern Appalachians

March 21, 2013 The Nodoroc: Gateway to Hell and lair of the Wog (Brain Food #30)

February 21, 2013 British Officials Interview Survivors of Fort Caroline Disaster under Oath (Brain Food #28)

February 19, 2013 Aboriginal Structures in Georgia, 1878

February 16, 2013 So you think that you are Becoming a Medicine Woman? 

February 11, 2013 Did American Indians Discover Ireland? (News Link #26)

February 8, 2013 Giant, Carved Stone Balls in the Georgia and South Carolina Mountains (News Link #25)

February 4, 2013 Chief Bobby “Bearheart” Johns, article to follow "Memories"

February 4, 2013 Lost Roanoke Colony (News Link #24)
Would you believe that in the past week, we have discovered in the Georgia Colonial archives a very unusual “Indian” tribe that occupied the region immediately south of the Nacoochee Valley in northern Georgia, up until the American Revolution? It was defeated by the Tallasee Creeks, living north of Athens, GA, in 1770 and thereafter absorbed into the Creek Confederacy.

February 1, 2013 People of One Fire Archaeology Club and Poverty Point Mound (News Link #23)
A group of POOF members spent last Sunday at the Sandy Creek Terrace Complex in Jackson County, GA then went out to eat at a Downtown Athens restaurant. We had so much fun that we decided to make it a monthly event.

January 29, 2013 Prince Charles sponsors search for lost “Migration Legend of the Creek People”  (News Link #22)
It is the Rosetta Stone of North America. The English translation of this hand-painted vellum containing of a lost Native American writing system, requires eight printed pages. With the encouragement of His Royal Highness, Charles, Prince of Wales, a search has begun on both sides of the Atlantic to find the original artifact, or at least a copy of the writing system.

January 25, 2013 Alabama Choctaw becomes NFL Coach (News Link #21)
The State of Alabama is on a roll these days. An Alabama belle from Opelika, enrolled in college in New York City became Miss New York, then Miss America. The Alabama Crimson Tide’s football team is not so shabby. Now, a MOWA Choctaw from western Alabama has become the first Native American to be on an NFL coaching staff. Read more...

January 20, 2013 Native American Slave who became a Master Architect (News Link #20
It is the story of a real American hero. He never sent men to their death in battle. He never staged a political demonstration. After the Civil War, he was elected to the Alabama legislator against his will, but rarely attended its sessions, because he thought his first duty was rebuilding the devastated South. He never did magic tricks with accumulated money after fame came his way, but immediately invested it into structures ­­and buildings that would bring economic growth, benefiting all people. His bridges spanned every major river from South Carolina to Mississippi. Read more..

January 11, 2013 Wikipedia ~ Native American History Altered (News Link #18
Someone has gone through the Wikipedia articles for counties in northern Alabama, Georgia & Tennessee and deleted most references to the Apalachee, Apalachicola, Yamasee, Chickasaw, Creek, Shawnee and Yuchi Indians, plus non-Cherokee archaeological sites such as Etowah Mounds, Fort Mountain, Rock Eagle and Kusa. They are changing articles on early European explorers such as de Soto and Pardo to only mention contacts with Cherokees Indians, when in fact there is no mention of the Cherokees in these 16th century chronicles. Read more...

January 9, 2013 Are Oklahoma Cherokees planning a Reservation and Casino in Georgia (News Link #17)
From the beginning it puzzled me why the question of Maya refugees coming to the Southeast became a “faith-based” rightwing political issue. Southern Baptist congregations in the mountains were mobilized to fight the “Mayas in America” thing with the same furor that they normally applied to the evil of Mexican-American kids getting subsidized school lunches. Wealthy real estate speculators from Atlanta and the Blairsville, GA area seemed to be their most important allies. It made no sense. Read more...

January 7, 2013 Native American legends & DNA Tests Explode Myths about the Southeast’s Past (News Link #16)
DNA Consulting Inc. is near completion of a comprehensive genetic study of the North Carolina Cherokee Reservation. The project’s original goal was to finally create a DNA test marker for the Cherokees. However, its shocking conclusion is that the Cherokees are a Middle Eastern – North African population. Read more...

January 4, 2013 The Itza Maya Pedigree of Eagle Man (News Link #15)
Left unsaid by the television program is that several copper breast plates portraying a man wearing an eagle feather cloak have been found in North America. Most were discovered at Ocmulgee National Monument or Etowah Mounds National Landmark in Georgia, but they have also been found in other archaeological zones such as Cahokia Mounds National Landmark in southern Illinois. The “Eagle Man” is also a common subject for shell gorgets found in the lower Southeastern United States and Mississippi River Basin. Most are very similar to the copper plates in design. A few examples of the “Eagle Man” on painted pottery have also been discovered. Read more...

December 31, 2012 Shell Tempered Pottery ~ A Lurking Killer (News Link #14)
Shell tempered pottery is popular topic at trendy cocktail parties and chic discos. Politicians can rant for hours of how shell tempered pottery was a key belief of our Founding Fathers and today, is a bulwark of family values and the fight against creeping socialism. However, how many of you have actually MADE shell tempered pottery? In this humorous essay, the writer describes the catastrophic failure of his first experiment in the glamorous world of shell tempered pottery. It was definitely one of those experiments that one should not try at home, alone - unless you are looking for an effective way of eliminating rat infestations or an ex-significant other. Read more...

December 20, 2012 How Southeastern Archaeology became fossilized (News Link #12)
Highly respected archaeologist, Timothy Pauketat, a major myth-buster himself, is a man on a mission. He is rapidly becoming the Martin Luther of his profession. His book, Archaeological Chiefdoms and Other Delusions, riddles the orthodoxies that developed among archaeologists, who were studying the Southeastern Indians during the late 20th century. Pauketat theorizes that for these archaeologists, their profession has literally become a cult to which membership is defined by acceptance of a set of beliefs . . . that may or may not be equivalent to reality. Read more...

December 11, 2012 Sneak Preview America Unearthed (News Link #11)
What the production team of America Unearthed has accomplished is a prime time documentary series which presents deductive reasoning and the professional education that comes with being a geologist, chemist, architect, archaeologist, historian, etc. as being both positive and entertaining. A lot of people have become absolutely fed up with the dogmatism and anti-intellectualism that has had disproportionate influence on the media over the past two decades. Read more...

December 14, 2012 Native American Scholars on the War Path (News Link #10)
For a summary of the architectural and historical research leading up to the filming of Unearthing America, you can read a 16 part series in AccessGenealogy.com. My book, Itsapa, the Itza Mayas in North America is available on Lulu.com. The electronic version is vastly cheaper! In advance of the broadcast of Unearthing America on the Maya New Year, the Examiner is running a series on the behind the scenes politics that led to Native Americans seeking to take control of their own history. Read more...

December 11, 2012 Sneak Preview of American Unearthed (News Link #9)
Seriously, what the production team of America Unearthed has accomplished is a prime time documentary series which presents deductive reasoning and the professional education that comes with being a geologist, chemist, architect, archaeologist, historian, etc. as being both positive and entertaining. A lot of people have become absolutely fed up with the dogmatism and anti-intellectualism that has had disproportionate influence on the media over the past two decades. Read more...

November 7, 2012 University of Kansas scholar links Choctaw words to Mexican languages (News Link #6)
David Kaufman, a candidate for a doctorate in anthropology & linguistics at the University of Kansas, gave a lecture on November 2, 2012 where he described shared or similar words in the Choctaw language and Totonac. He also found some shared or similar words in the Chitimacha and “Creek” language. Mr. Kaufman has created a web site for his linguistic studies. Read more...

November 1, 2012 Native American Heritage Month (News Link #4)
The first of November is the beginning of Native American Heritage Month in the United States. Its celebration varies considerably across the continent. In communities where indigenous peoples are numerous and politically influential, government agencies, schools and historic commissions sponsor exhibits, student projects and lectures. In many other communities, citizens are not even aware that November has any special significance to Native Americans. Read more...

October 25, 2012 Meet the architect of many Spanish missions in Georgia & Florida (News Link 3)
Fray Andres de San Miguel, a lay brother in a Franciscan monastery in Pueblo, Mexico, created some of Mexico City's most famous early 17th century structures, designed most of the Franciscan missions in Georgia and Florida during that period, plus engineered the drainage system that made possible the continued existence of Mexico City. All of this happened because of a shipwreck, when he was 18, along the coast of the future state of Georgia. Read more...

October 17 2012  Evidence grows for Jewish colonists in the Appalachians (News Link #2)
However, the latest DNA studies are downright shocking. The average North Carolina Cherokee carries more Middle Eastern DNA than the average Ashkenazi Jew in the United States. Not only do the Cherokees carry typical haplogroups from the Levant, but also other areas of the region. In a large Cherokee DNA sample, 34% carried typical Mesopotamian DNA, while 26.8% were in the Type T haplogroup that is typical of Egypt. Twenty-five percent of Egyptians carry Type T.  Read more...

October 11, 2012 October News Updates (News Link #1)

 



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