Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean

DNA Consultants ^ | 17 June 2010 | Donald N. Yates

[Palter]

Donald N. Yates is a Georgia native of Choctaw-Cherokee and Sephardic 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 Souls in a New World, 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.

[Palter]

Always interesting. Article has a nice Power Point Slide.

Possum Creek Stone and Anomalous Cherokee DNA Point to East Mediterranean Origins (PPT)

[bcsco]

Huh. Now I know I’m right when I say “It’s all Greek to me”.

[GreyFriar]

ping

[fidelis]

From Utah with love. More LDS wishful thinking.

[Brookhaven]

Keynote address for Ancient American History and Archeology Conference, Sandy, Utah, April 2, 2010

I'm guessing there is a Moromon connection behind the scenes pushing this somewhere.

The Book of Mormon says that a group of ancient people came to the America's from the middle east. The fact that zero middle eastern DNA evidence has been found in ancient Americans is a huge hole in Moromon history. All of the DNA evidence shows that ancient Americans came from the far eastern pacific rim.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Lots of stretching and leaps in logic here! I know everyone wishes they were Cherokee, this guy wants us to adopt the Greeks.

[bcsco]

Huh. I skipped over that line about Keynote Address. If I’d noticed that I’d have been suspicious as well. We lived in Sandy, UT for 4 years. Good catch...

[bmwcyle]

Of course they were Greek.

[stinkerpot65]

On the plus side, when you die you become a god and get your own planet. You just have to hope your planet is in a good neighborhood. Stay away from the south side of the galaxy - bad schools, crime, etc.

Unless you were black before 1978. Then blacks couldn’t be a Mormon and get their own planet. Or a Mormon at all.

But, suddenly, and without warning - ta-dah! A new revelation. It’s OK to be black after all.

Isn’t that special?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

A lotta wishful thinking there, and little science.

[NavyCanDo]

TOGA, TOGA, TOGA

Seriously, and with no offense to the LDS Freepers, I put my trust in the historians and ethnographers who agree that Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family and are thought to have migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Who - besides a Mormon zealot - would take this seriously?

[VRW Conspirator]

Opa! (how do you say that in Cherokee?)

[Vigilanteman]

Actaully, everyone came from the Caucasus Mountains at one time. Isn't that where Mt. Ararat is located (where Noah's Ark landed)?

So does that make us all caucasians?

[Cheburashka]

Seriously, and with no offense to the LDS Freepers, I put my trust in the historians and ethnographers who agree that Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family and are thought to have migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.

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Language is not a reliable marker of ethnic origin, since a new language is easily learned, and an old language forgotten within two or three generations. Think of all the American immigrant families and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who couldn't speak more than a word or two of the “old” language if a gun was held to their heads, having learned only English.

[tlb]

>>> "Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean." This newly discovered portrait of Pocahontas indicates they may be on to something here.

[Larry Lucido]

Meet my great, great, great, great grandfather, Chief Grand Cherokee.

[Larry Lucido]

Apparently, a handful of anti-Mormon zealots are taking this VERY seriously. :-)

I’m not Mormon so I don’t care. Personally, I think Phoenix was settled by Phoenicians. And they invented phoenics.

[org.whodat]

LOL, its all in who translates the spelling of the language, whether the Cherokee had a word they used years and years ago makes no difference gotta write that book!!! LOL