People of One Fire Newsletter

The predominant interest of many Creek descendants in the Southeast has been proving their Creek ancestry. The generations of efforts by families to conceal their ethnic identities has often made this seemingly simple task, difficult. An internet message board was linked to the “Among the Creeks” web site to enable Creeks from around the nation to exchange questions and answers concerning their ancestors. This is the Creek-Southeast Mailing List. In the period between 2000 and 2007 many Creek scholars from around the nation became acquainted with each other via e-mail exchanges. The electronic conversations increasingly strayed away from the stated genealogical purpose of Creek-Southeast. So, in late 2007, 24 members of the message board decided to form a national alliance of Muskogean scholars to promote the study, preservation and promotion of our shared heritage. This eventually evolved into intermittent news updates, and finally, more formal electronic newsletters. At present, we have 1,053 subscribers in 28 states, plus some Creek soldiers in the Middle East.

Membership in our organization is open to all persons of Native American descent, or friends of the Muskogean Peoples.  You may join by sending your name address, email and phone number to: People Of One Fire or click the button!!(coming very soon) The first 3 years issues are in PDF format

Volume V Issue 1 - February 2011

1. Introduction & the Devil's Backbone stone fort near Charlestown, IN
2. Yuchi, Hogeloge Yuchi & The Old Stone Fort in Manchester, TN
3. Southern Siouans, Shawnee, Creek Confederacy, Browns Mount near Macon, GA & Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, GA
4. Fort Mountain near Chatsworth, GA & Ladds Mountain Observatory in Cartersville, GA
5. Chickasaw, Fort Ancient Village near Cincinnati, Ohio & Mouse Creek Village near Cleveland, TN
6. Tunacunnhee Site near Trenton, GA & the Cherokees
7. Cherokees, Welsh, Dryslwyn Castle & European version of history
8. Barry Fell's theories & Prince Madoc Legend
9. Gamla Folk of Scandinavia, evidence of Bronze Age copper miners, Track Rock Archaeological Zone near Blairsville, GA & White Indians
10. Gordon Freeman's research, the Great Stone Circle in Alberta, & Mystery Hill, Massachusetts
11. Roman coins found in America, Kansas City Hopewells & Texas Panhandle Pueblos
12. Research by University of Cincinnati, Miami Fort, Fort Ancient, Fort Hill, Paint Creek Stoneworks (all in Ohio) & Devil's Backbone, Indiana
13. Teotihuacan, Mexico
14. Teotihuacan, Mexico
15. Teotihuacan, Mexico
16. Satellite image of alignments between volcanoes and Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico

Issue - December 12, 2010

• North Carolina Rock’s Inscription

Update to February 2009

• Why did the ancestors of the Creek Indians build five-sided mounds?

Issue - October 22, 2010

• Creeks and Their Ancestors Had an Advanced Writing System

Issue - October 20, 2010

• Good News about Ocmulgee National Monument
• Why Ocmulgee National Monument is important

Issue - October 7, 2010

• A non-partisan editorial
• Exciting Discoveries at Teotihuacan

Issue 13 - July 2010

• Before Columbus Screwed Things Up: the World that our Ancestors Once Laughed In - What is known and not known
• Snapshots from the Great Camping Adventure

Issue 12 - March 2010

• The Impact of European Colonization efforts on the Piedmont & Southern Highlands
• Greetings from the Great Smoky Mountains - On the trail of de Soto and Pardo
• Who were the Snowbird Cherokee?
• Sir William Berkley and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Southeast

Issue 11 - January 2010

• Silly Wabbit! The Famous Ocmulgee Earth Lodge was not an Earth Lodge - A Primer on Muskogean Communal Architecture
• People of One Fire Begins Third Year of Publication
• How to Build a Traditional Chukofa (if you are Oklahoma Muskogee/Seminole) or Chokopa (if you are Eastern Creek/Hitchiti/Miccosukee)
• Architectural Origins of the Chokopa or Chukofa
• William Bartram's Travels Through the "Creek Country" during 1776

Issue 10 - October 2009

• Everything you Always wanted to know about Native American Fish Traps
• Mapping Ethnic Changes in the Colonial Period (Great Maps)
• Mapping Ethnic Changes in the Federal Period
• Current NAGPRA Map for the Southeast

Issue 9 - July 2009

• Campfire Chat: A Muskogean Agriculture a Partial Solution to Today's Economic Crisis - Entire Issue

Issue 8 - May 2009

• The Southern Highlands: A Native American Tapestry - Entire Issue

Issue 7 - March 2009

• Exploring Magnificent Ocmulgee Bottoms - Macon Georgia - Entire Issue

Issue 6 - February 2009

• Who were the Kusv? The Kusa were the most powerful ethnic group north of Mexico in 1540
• Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico - There may be connection between the plague holocaust in the Southeast and the one in Mexico
• The Pentagonal Mounds of Georgia - Five sided mounds are a unique feature of the Native American heritage in Georgia.

Issue 5 - December 2008

• Coosaponakeesa, Mary Musgrove Bosomworth A successful Woman of Two Cultures - Marcie E. Lee, University of West Florida
• Who Were the Tama-tli? - Editorial
• Tulsa, Oklahoma - To Build Monument Honoring Creek Founders
• A Different Path to Claiming Southeastern Creek Heritage - Edna Dixon
• Virtual Reality Tour of the Tama-tli - Richard Thornton
• Translations & Origins of Native American Place Names in the Highlands

Issue 4 - October 2008

• Honoring the Life of Fred Scheidler
• Great Dirt - Remembering the Life of Fred Scheidler
• Who Were the Kusv? - Origin of the Place & Tribal Names - Kusa, Coosa, Cusaw, Coosawatee and Cusabo
• Fascinating Similarity of Traditional Creek Religious Practices with those of the Samaritans
• Indian Traders Among the Creeks in Georgia, West Florida and Alabama - Marcia E. Lee, University of West Florida
• The Ancient Roots Series of Books on the Southeastern Native Americans
• Southeastern Indians Once Lived with Nature - Southeastern Exposure

Issue 3 - May 2008

• Archaeologist Michelle Schohn - Pee Dee-Catawba and Proud of It!
• Its time to get back to Our Agricultural Roots
• Who Were the Tokee - Origin of the Place Names Toccoa, Tokwa & Tugaloo
• The Origins of the Black Seminoles - Dr. Andrew Frank, Florida State University
• The Pee Dee of South Carolina - Michelle Schohn
• The Ancient Roots Series of Books on the Southeastern Native Americans

Issue 2 - March 2008

• The Bronze Age Returns - Creek Artist, Dan Brooks a Master in the Sculpture Medium of Bronze
• What does Chiska Mean?
• Four Sheets to the Wind - Editorial Opinion by Richard Thornton
• Seven Generations - by Val Pacini, A look at Native American Children
• The Chiska and the Mouse Creek Culture
• Ghost Dance Alaskan Malamutes - Newsletter Sponsor
• Featured Archaeological Sites - Richard Thornton - Fort Mountain Georgia and Enigmatic Stone Structures of the Southern Highland
• Flight of the Eagle - Honor our Veterans

Issue 1 - December 2007

• Featured Artist - Scott Roberts of Oklahoma City
• Editorial Page - Many museums do not provide visitors with an accurate image of Muskogean Culture.
• Featured Researcher - Michael Jacobs, a Historic Preservation Planner of Wacamaw descent, is making discoveries that will change the textbooks on Native American History
• Featured Archaeological Site - Fred Scheidler provides us with a fascinating tour of the Ortona Site in Florida
• Contemporary Culture - Social worker, Val Pacini, describes the problems that are typical of young Native Americans today.
• Ancestry & Genealogy - Professional Genealogist Kathy Donahue, starts a series on tracing your Native ancestors.

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