Explore the interface between history, archeology and ancient DNA.
The Time Traveler’s Suitcase is a monthly 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.
America’s Euchee Indians claimed to be the oldest indigenous people in the Southeast. DNA Consultants tested their descendants and traced surprising genetic links to Austronesians from Island Southeast Asia — the same origin shared by early Cherokees and Polynesians, and the builders of the Ohio mounds.
An exploration of the Goddess as the Universal Mother and Queen of Heaven, drawing on the writing of Teresa Panther-Yates and read by Elisha Daeva. This episode follows Her presence through ancient cultures, sacred symbols, serpents, trees, visionary rites, Female wisdom and the long history of matriarchal traditions.
Scandinavians, Irish, Libyans and Iberians formed part of the ancient sea rovers who helped colonize North America and left their genes among the natives beginning about 1200 BCE. This is the third episode in our ongoing series titled “More Cherokee Descendants Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong.”
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.
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.
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.
Special video tribute from The Big Little Book of Native American Wit and Wisdom
The Cherokee people originated as seven clans arriving in the Ohio Valley in Hellenistic times.
A genetic genealogist discusses the evolving state of DNA testing.
Richard Thornton continues with his amazing revelations about the Apalache, Euchee, Hitchiti and others in the Southeast. Part Two of Two.
