The History Channel's recent documentary, Who Really Discovered America? asks some profound questions. Chief Joe Sitting Owl of the Central Band of Cherokee explains Cherokee oral history and tradition that they are from Jewish ancestry. Light skinned, the Cherokee don't look like most Native Americans of Asian ancestry. The Bat Creek stone, archaeologically removed from a Hopewell burial mound by the Smithsonian, has inscribed in ancient Hebrew the phrase "For Judea" or "For the Judeans." Only 3% of Chief Sitting Owls tribe had Jewish DNA, but 94% of those tested in the Central Band showed European DNA that goes back thousands of years. It is not widely known that haplogroup X is one of the 12 primary Jewish lineages, and is found in the Cherokee.
I just have to say everyone has a right to claim to be whatever they want, but I have to say and I being of cherokee & seminole decent these are some of the whitest cherokee I have ever seen. I am not being racist, but if they have any jewish ancestory it would have to come from their european ancestory, because native people are descended out of aisa not europe, I just don't believe this claim sorry I just don't buy native americans being jews. No way.
vwthga1 8 months ago
Central Band of "Cherokee" = False Cherokee Tribe or a heritage group that have no rights to speak on or for the Cherokee Nation or Cherokee people as a whole.
stevennewnan 9 months ago
i am cherokee paint clan we have aways been here i have walk in my familys foot prints in stone we have aways been here
runingblackbear 9 months ago
i am cherokee paint clan and we have always been here i have walk in my familys foot prints in stone in front of the cave where all natives come from in the beinning
runingblackbear 9 months ago
@soonerfoxes: Being Cherokee, I respect the Osage and do not speak for them being I am not one of them. I would expect the same respect from an Osage not to speak about Cherokee when they are not Cherokee. You speak on a topic due to a TV show and hearsay, where some of us live it, study it personally and know it. Cherokee are the Tsalagi who were the Kit'Yowah. Cherokee use to be high priests for Creator YHWH. We are of Hebrew decent. The Western Cherokee have also proven this DNA lineage.
MinisterQuietBuck 10 months ago
@educheny: Guess you have no studies on this topic past your own TV lead assumptions. If you did any research on the Eastern Cherokee you would easily realize they are of Hebrew decent. The language is an older form of Hebrew, they worship the same Creator, YHWH, they have the same feasts as scripture, even the same blue tassels. Not to mention numerous stone items, songs, chants and stories. The Cherokee were the Tsalagi who were the Kit'Yowah, "those from Creator YHWH".
MinisterQuietBuck 10 months ago
White people trying to claim Manifest Destiny.
lawgivah1 10 months ago
interesting
CrazyNative4 10 months ago
Women and girls that were stolen and raped by whites raised their mixed children our own way. White "husbands" often treated indians and mixed children like savages and didn't allow them in the house because they were the same as "animals." Masons and Christians with underground railroads helped Indians to hide using ancient Jewish methods and symbols, helping many escape several "trails of tears." Oklahomans see white skin and ignore the effects of generations of rape of OUR OWN PEOPLE! SAD
summeranalogy 11 months ago
Native Americans = Tribe of Gad. One of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel.
Bugsy1982 11 months ago