Published in March of 2010, this issue carried as its cover story "DNA and the Cherokee in North America." It contains the first publication of DNA data supporting the origin of an American Indian tribe in the Middle East rather than Mongolia/Siberia. An abbreviated version of the 2009 study of 52 participants in DNA Consultants' Phase I Cherokee DNA Study by Donald N. Yates, Ph.D., appears on pp. 28-32, "Mitochondrial DNA of the Cherokee." There is a "New Flash: DNA on the Brock Family" reporting that the Y chromosome DNA haplotype of the descendants of the Chief Motoy family in the Cherokees is "demonstrably from the ancient Middle East (and likely Jewish)," similar, in fact, to the Cohen Modal Haplotype of Old Testament priests. Other articles focus on the Central Band of Cherokee and its Abraham/Moses Project.

Donald N. Yates is a Georgia native of Choctaw-Cherokee and Jewish descent. He earned a Ph.D. in classical studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before teaching at the University of Notre Dame and elsewhere. In 2003, he founded DNA Testing Systems. His latest book, Old World Roots of the Cherokee, is about an expedition of Greeks, Jews and Egyptians that inadvertently founded the Cherokee Indian nation in the third century B.C. He lives in Phoenix.