Jul 12, 2013A Red-Hot Tale from the Nation's Capital By Monica R. Sanowar I took my first test with Family Tree in 2006. This test showed my mtDNA as L3e2b2 and it went like this: 52% West African 39% European 9% EAST ASIAN 0% Native…
Jul 08, 2013Nancy J. Cooper et al. v. The Choctaw Nation (1896) is one of the classic cases in American Indian law. Like the more numerous "Thompson Choctaws," the Cooper Choctaws were victims of the Dawes Commission, the Federal government’s…
Jun 04, 2013One of our readers, E. S. Bailey, sent us this statement on the occasion of the first newsletter. We are putting it into Panther's Blog unaltered, in its entirety. I have known Donald and Teresa Yates since early 2011. Having used…
May 20, 2013Do you have a "Duchenne smile" in your official author's portrait? We learned what characterizes a good profile photo in Guy Kawasaki's APE: How to Publish a Book. "Find or take a photo," the self-publishing guru advises, "where you…
May 15, 2013One day the sun comes up and nobody reads the local paper anymore. In some towns, there is no newspaper. If you manage to find a newspaper, it is usually a paltry affair. The sun comes up and suddenly no one writes letters or reads…
May 10, 2013May 10, 2013 As part of the festivities of the re-opening of Panther's Lodge as a publisher site (it used to be an information site only), we are offering a free copy of one of our little known publications, the story of Chief Two White…
Apr 25, 2013Do Publishers Always Know Better Than Authors about Titling, and Who Must Give When They Lock Horns? Deborah Copaken Kogan writes in the current issue of The Nation about being nominated for Britain's Women's Prize for Fiction ("My…
Apr 11, 2013Yucatan Journal. Oct. 6-Nov. 1, 2007. Donald N. Yates. Saturday, Oct. 6, Santa Fe It is just a few days until Teresa and I leave for our three-week stay at Eco-Retreat Genesis at Ek Balam in Yucatan. It is the longest vacation I…
Apr 08, 2013XIII Sky City. For Mother’s Day we decided to take a trip to what many consider the mother pueblo, at least the oldest one, though the title is disputed. On the basis of tree rings in timbers, archeologists have set the date of the…
Apr 08, 2013Visits to Sacred Sites II Articles and Photography from the Santa Fe Sun-News. By Donald N. Panther-Yates These articles with their accompanying photographs were published in the Sun-News over the years from 2004 to 2007. They began…
Cherokee Study Closed: Phase III Results to Be Published in “More Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong” Phase III of DNA Consultants’ Cherokee DNA Studies has been closed to enrollment,…
Fact #1. They are “old iron objects found outside Tucson in 1924.” Incredibly, this “fact” comes from the first sentence of the description of the Tucson Artifacts in the Arizona Historical Society’s…
What You Thought You Knew about Southwest U.S. Indians is probably not right... Tucson Artifacts can shed light on American Indians The Tucson Artifacts bear reliable dates in…
Here is the earliest and most authoritative version of the story of the origins and migrations of the Cherokee people, as recounted by a noted member of the Keetoowah Society and published in the Indian…
