The Time Traveler’s Suitcase

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.

Explore the interface between history, archeology and ancient DNA. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase is a biweekly podcast from DNA Consultants. The show is hosted by talk radio professional Pete Ferrand. Most of the episodes include an audiobook excerpt from the publications of Donald N. Yates, a DNA investigator and historian whose works include Old Souls in a New World, Merchant Adventurers of Rhoda and The Cherokee Origin Narrative. Each usually also has an interview with a leading scientist or historical expert.

DNA can rewrite history. Host Pete Ferrand interviews Dr. Eran Elhaik at the University of Sheffield in England on the exciting promise of ancient DNA testing. The world-renowned paleogeneticist discusses how the DNA of people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago is recovered from ancient skeletons and archeological sites and how modern-day consumers can now explore their own genetic likeness and true descent with DNA Consultants’ new product line called Primeval DNA Tests. The seven peoples featured in the initial launch are Ancient Britons in Roman Britain, Ancient Israelites, Chumash Paleo-Indians, Egyptian Mummies, Ice Age Europeans, Stone Age Europeans and Medieval Vikings.

Cherokee DNA leaves everything up in the air. Hosted by Pete Ferrand, the premier episode of “The Time Traveler’s Suitcase” features three stories from a publication by DNA Consultants suggesting Cherokee Indians are genetically related to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples, including Jews. The first story of the podcast, “Maybe My Great-Grandmother Really Was a Cherokee Princess,” explodes the myth that American Indian ancestry was adopted by many Southerners out of racial guilt. The second, “Trail of Fears,” discusses who is and who is not Indian. The third is about the textbook case of Nancy Cooper v. The Choctaw Nation, which stretches back to the 1890s, and the billion-dollar Individual Indian Monies scandal, which closed the Bureau of Indian Affairs for eight years.