"The Trail of Tears", by Robert Lindneux, depicting the expulsion of the Cherokees from their beloved tribal native home in Georgia in the 1830's on the way to their forced resettlement in Oklahoma. A Georgia soldier who took part in the expulsion said, "I've seen loads blood and guts in my time, but the removal of the Cherokees was the hardest thing I ever did." Courtesy of Native American Foundation.
THE CHEROKEE NATION/ANCIENT HEBREW TRIBE
I got the surprise of my life not that very long ago. It has been an incredible journey. I got involved in the Hebrew Roots Movement completely by accident. I wanted to investigate the seven feasts of God, and why Christians would rather celebrate Christmas and Easter, knowing these had pagan roots, rather then feasts God gave us. This has been bothering me for a very long time. As matter of fact, I to a booklet on the 7 feasts subject about five years ago. It's taken me this long to get around to reading it and really getting information about them.
Well, this lead me to some awesome Bible Studies from the Hebrew Roots Movement folks. Bible studies I've never heard as a Christian. Naturally. We weren't Jews, didn't know their traditions, and wouldn't understand a lot of things in the Bible unless we knew about these things. After all, Jesus is a Jew. So, I don't know why Christians don't feel we need to investigate this culture more.
And I am glad I decided to do so. Not only am I learning about the Jewish culture, which helps me understand my Bible better . . . helps me understand Yeshua's messages to us . . . but, this type of study gets to the "Meat" of the Word of God. It's just completely awesome.
Through researching this type of study, and discovering this is the way I choose to go, abandoning my Christian background (but thankful for them getting me started), but I've also discovered in all probability I probably am literally from one of the lost Northern tribes. It has been discovered through DNA that Cherokee Indians have Jewish DNA. And I am part Chrerokee Indian. Wow! This was very exciting for me to discover. But, not only the DNA has been proven, but the Cherokee customs, holidays, feasts, and even dress, seem to mimic Jewish customs. Below I have a few links to follow where you can look this up.
I also found this on http://www.myspace.com/gailgeer/blog/493532999. There are more below, including videos from YouTube about the Cherokee's.
THE CHEROKEE NATION/ ANCIENT HEBREW TRIBE.
As in my studies, I have found numerous evidence of how Ancient Israel sent explorers to the Ancient America, mined all the copper here for the Temple of God, and even settled with some of the ancient people to form the American Native Indian Tribes of America.
The one I want to focus on here, is the Cherokee Nation. Because The Cherokee have the most resemblance and closest ties to the ancient Israelites.
Here are some of the similarities that will astonish you:
Their dress: they also wore similar dress, including the fringes on their garments.
They had the same manner of worship and customs, that are identical to Hebrew.
The Cherokees have their own "DAY OF ATONEMENT: which is identical to Israel's.
The Northern Cherokee Nation of Old Louisiana Territory has recently shocked the world by claiming that their ancient oral legends tell of a Cherokee migration made to America from the area in Israel known as MASADA!
This startling evidence is being offered to the public by Beverly Baker Northup whom is the spokesperson for their organization.
The story has been kept alive among our Cherokee people that the SICARII who escaped Masada, are some of our ancestors who managed to cross the water to this land, and later became known as Cherokees.
(Please note the phonetic resemblance of SI'CARI'I and Cherokee or TSA'RA-GI').
In addition to other startling claims, there is also the belief by the Northern Cherokee that A ROCK THAT WAS UNCOVERED IN TENNESSEE IN 1889 THAT IS NAMED THE BAT CREEK STONE PROVES A TRANSATLANTIC DIRECT CONNECTION TO JEWS.
Northup believes the ancient writings on the rock indicate that the stone is evidence of a 1st century Atlantic crossing to America by these escaped Jews that later became known as the NORTHERN CHEROKEE INDIAN NATION.
Some other similarities:
In marriage customs among many Indian tribes is very similar to the point of striking.
A widow could not marry without the permission of her brother-in-law.
This custom only existed among the American Indians and the Israelites!
Like the Jews, the Indians had their own "DAY OF ATONEMENT" in which insults were forgiven and all disputes buried.
Their TOTEM corresponded in significance with the Israelites ARK OF THE COVENANT.
This chest was carried on poles and could never touch the ground.
In wartime the Israelites carried the ark.
The Cherokee and other tribes, did the same with their totem.
Among the Israelites, the new moon was linked to the Sabbath, and the Festival of the New Moon was a Biblical feast. Among them too, ceremonies of the New Moon were of highest importance.
I may add here that these similarities were also found in the Yuchis tribe that migrated to the Oklahoma territory and show the same evidence.
Both tribes were unique among the other tribes as being racially and linguistically different and separated from their neighboring tribes.
Every year on the 15th day of the sacred month of harvest, in the fall, they make a pilgrimage. For 8 days they live in "booths" with roofs open to the sky, covered w/branches, leaves, and foliage.
During this festival they call upon the Name of God.
This is called the FESTIVAL OF BOOTHS.
This goes back to Moses and the exodus from ancient Egypt. (Lev. 23)
HOW DID 2 TOTALLY SEPARATE GROUPS CELEBRATE THE SAME EXACT CUSTOMS?
Dr. Cyrus Gordon of Brandeis Unv. in Boston, was priviledged to sit in on one of the fall harvest feasts and listened to their chants,songs, and sacred ceremonies. Being an expert in Hebrew, Minoan, and most Mid. East. languages, he was incredulous! As he listened, he exclaimed to his companion, "THEY ARE SPEAKING THE HEBREW NAMES OF GOD!"
Trying not to make this too long, let me briefly mention many ancient Jewish graves have been found in America. At the BAT CREEK STONE IN TENNESSEE, org. thot to be just Cherokee (for their language is so similar/identical); it was later identified as paleo-Hebrew and recognized by Hebrew scholars of Hebrew text of that period.
Dr. Robert Steiglitz of New York reads it as "A COMET FOR THE HEBREWS," w/reference to HALLEY'S COMET,WHICH HUNG OVER JERUSALEM "LIKE A FLAMING SWORD" IN THE YEAR A.D. 69 DURING THE FIRST REVOLT."
THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE BECAME HAVENS OF REFUGE FOR PERSECUTED HEBREWS OF ISRAEL!
There are many more facts that I could bring out (maybe in a future blog), but the evidence is clear! And I praise God that this is my heritage!
Shalom,
Avigal
Cherokee DNA from History Channel
Native Americans Wrote in Ancient Hebrew
Glenn takes a look at Indian artifacts from dating from around 800 BC.
The Northern Tribes of Yisra'el
Native American YHWH
To learn more about YHWH or to contact Quiet Buck, a Minister of YHWH.
Please visit http://www.QuietBuck.com. Many don't realize that the Native American Indians knew YHWH's name before others came to this land. YHWH's name is all through history, songs, stories and ways of life. My studies only pertain to the E. Shawnee, E. Cherokee, Powhatan, Hopewell and Fort Ancients. For this is my family line. YHWH YOWAH YaHWeH YeHoWaH YeHehaWaHeha YoHehaWavoHe Yodh Heh Wah Heh . . . the Creator
Tribe of Gad (American Indian Hebrew Israelites)
TWELVE TRIBES OF THE TRUE NATION OF ISRAEL
Judah - so called Negroes
Benjamin - so called West Indians
Levi - so called Haitians
Simeon - so called Dominicans
Zebulon - Guatemala to Panama
Ephraim - so called Puerto Ricans
Manasseh- so called Cubans
Gad - N.American Indians
Reuben - Seminole Indians
Napthali - Argentina to Chile
Asher - Colombia to Uruguay
Issachar - Mexicans
[ according to the BIBLE, you are what your father is, and your father's father, and his father; so forth and so on; by way of "seed of compulation"] *
RELATED REFERENCES TO CHECK OUT:
-Genesis 49:19 KJV
-Isaiah 65:11-12 KJV
-The Apocrypha (2nd Esdras chap 13)
-James Adair's History of the American Indians (1775)
WHERE ARE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Part 1
Yair Davidiy, Jewish scholar and author of the book, 'The Tribes' discusses the migrations of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel after the Assyrian captivity. He outlines their histories and migrations through the centuries and their geographical clusterings in the nations of the west.
WHERE ARE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Part 2
WHERE ARE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Part 3
WHERE ARE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Part 4
WHERE ARE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Part 5
December 2012 Cherokee prophecy of the future
Part 1 - Cherokee History As You've Never Heard It
Part 2 - Cherokee History As You've Never Heard It
The Trail of Tears as Told by Johnny Cash - pt 1
Removal of the Cherokees
Birthday Story of Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838-39.
Children: This is my birthday, December 11, 1890, I am eighty years old today. I was born at Kings Iron Works in Sulllivan County, Tennessee, December the 11th, 1810. I grew into manhood fishing in Beaver Creek and roaming through the forest hunting the deer and the wild boar and the timber wolf. Often spending weeks at a time in the solitary wilderness with no companions but my rifle, hunting knife, and a small hatchet that I carried in my belt in all of my wilderness wanderings. On these long hunting trips I met and became acquainted with many of the Cherokee Indians, hunting with them by day and sleeping around their camp fires by night.
I learned to speak their language, and they taught me the arts of trailing and building traps and snares. On one of my long hunts in the fall of 1829, I found a young Cherokee who had been shot by a roving band of hunters and who had eluded his pursuers and concealed himself under a shelving rock. Weak from loss of blood, the poor creature was unable to walk and almost famished for water. I carried him to a spring, bathed and bandaged the bullet wound, and built a shelter out of bark peeled from a dead chestnut tree. I nursed and protected him feeding him on chestnuts and toasted deer meat. When he was able to travel I accompanied him to the home of his people and remained so long that I was given up for lost. By this time I had become an expert rifleman and fairly good archer and a good trapper and spent most of my time in the forest in quest of game.
The Trail of Tears as Told by Johnny Cash - pt 2
In the year 1828, a little Indian boy living on Ward creek had sold a gold nugget to a white trader, and that nugget sealed the doom of the Cherokees. In a short time the country was overrun with armed brigands claiming to be government agents, who paid no attention to the rights of the Indians who were the legal possessors of the country. Crimes were committed that were a disgrace to civilization. Men were shot in cold blood, lands were confiscated. Homes were burned and the inhabitants driven out by the gold-hungry brigands. Chief Junaluska was personally acquainted with President Andrew Jackson. Junaluska had taken 500 of the flower of his Cherokee scouts and helped Jackson to win the battle of the Horse Shoe, leaving 33 of them dead on the field. And in that battle Junaluska had drove his tomahawk through the skull of a Creek warrior, when the Creek had Jackson at his mercy.
Chief John Ross sent Junaluska as an envoy to plead with President Jackson for protection for his people, but Jackson's manner was cold and indifferent toward the rugged son of the forest who had saved his life. He met Junaluska, heard his plea but curtly said, "Sir, your audience is ended. There is nothing I can do for you." The doom of the Cherokee was sealed. Washington, D.C. had decreed that they must be driven West and their lands given to the white man, and in May 1838, an army of 4000 regulars, and 3000 volunteer soldiers under command of General Winfield Scott, marched into the Indian country and wrote the blackest chapter on the pages of American history.
Men working in the fields were arrested and driven to the stockades. Women were dragged from their homes by soldiers whose language they could not understand. Children were often separated from their parents and driven into the stockades with the sky for a blanket and the earth for a pillow. And often the old and infirm were prodded with bayonets to hasten them to the stockades. In one home death had come during the night. A little sad-faced child had died and was lying on a bear skin couch and some women were preparing the little body for burial. All were arrested and driven out leaving the child in the cabin. I don't know who buried the body. In another home was a frail mother, apparently a widow and three small children, one just a baby. When told that she must go, the mother gathered the children at her feet, prayed a humble prayer in her native tongue, patted the old family dog on the head, told the faithful creature good-by, with a baby strapped on her back and leading a child with each hand started on her exile. But the task was too great for that frail mother. A stroke of heart failure relieved her sufferings. She sunk and died with her baby on her back, and her other two children clinging to her hands.
Chief Junaluska who had saved President Jackson's life at the battle of Horse Shoe witnessed this scene, the tears gushing down his cheeks and lifting his cap he turned his face toward the heavens and said, "Oh my God, if I had known at the battle of the Horse Shoe what I know now, American history would have been differently written." At this time, 1890, we are too near the removal of the Cherokees for our young people to fully understand the enormity of the crime that was committed against a helpless race.
Truth is, the facts are being concealed from the young people of today. School children of today do not know that we are living on lands that were taken from a helpless race at the bayonet point to satisfy the white man's greed. Future generations will read and condemn the act and I do hope posterity will remember that private soldiers like myself, and like the four Cherokees who were forced by General Scott to shoot an Indian Chief and his children, had to execute the orders of our superiors. We had no choice in the matter.
Twenty-five years after the removal it was my privilege to meet a large company of the Cherokees in uniform of the Confederate Army under command of Colonel Thomas. They were encamped at Zollicoffer and I went to see them. Most of them were just boys at the time of the removal but they instantly recognized me as "the soldier that was good to us". Being able to talk to them in their native language I had an enjoyable day with them. From them I learned that Chief John Ross was still ruler in the nation in 1863. And I wonder if he is still living? He was a noble-hearted fellow and suffered a lot for his race.
