Donald N. Yates (also published as Donald Panther-Yates) was born in 1950 in Cedartown, Georgia and is of one-quarter Cherokee-Choctaw descent. His first book was The Bear Went over the Mountain, a genealogy and social history of the Yates family of Virginia. On his mother's side he is descended from Black Fox, the last of the great Cherokee chiefs, and on his father's side his ancestry includes Col. Will Thomas, the founder of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. A recent book is Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest...