Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest Indian Nation
Ten years in the making, this new history of the Cherokee Indians will make you rethink everything you thought you "knew" about them. --Cherokee DNA StudiesGenealogist Donald Yates traces the origins of the Cherokee to an era when their ancestry was formed from Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean roots. For ancient history buffs, it's a fascinating story. --Western WordsYates detects Cherokee as Greek in an epochal shift of thinking. His momentous book surely will have numerous noteworthy successors. --Prof. Cyclone Covey, Wake Forest UniversityDemonstrates with considerable scholarship that southeastern Indians blended to an astonishing degree with early European colonists.