Clay County Petroglyphs | Kentucky Life | KET
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- In a previous season, we paid our first visit to the mysterious Red Bird River Shelter petroglyphs, or rock carvings, in Clay County. We returned to this site to explore its Native American connections. A researcher from the University of Cincinnati even sees connections to the great Sequoyah (1776-1843), who created the written Cherokee language.
The site has long been connected to Native Americans and with the Cherokee chief Red Bird, who gave his name to the nearby river. Kenneth B. Tankersley, an archaeologist at the University of Cincinnati and himself a member of the Cherokee nation, found 15 characters from the Cherokee language carved into the sandstone along with a date of 1808 or 1818-making them the earliest known example of the Cherokee script. Tankersley believes the carvings could have been done by Sequoyah himself.
He is exploring the possibility of links between these Cherokee symbols and the much older pictographs carved into the rock. If there is a link, it could make this Clay County site the Rosetta Stone of the Cherokee language.
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i am from clay county and have cherokee in my family also seen the writings in the rocks around my grandparents house on kinkade road
My relatives are from clay county...rippatoes...
I know that there are 2 caves in Monroe County Kentucky that Native Americans had left markings on the walls inside. I found several arrowheads at one cave. Its on private land now so nobody can access it.
very interesing ang Similar prehistoric petroglyphs of Iran!
It is a shame the way our heritage was stripped away from us
This is where non native Americans are in the comments about their one relative
My grandfather was born in Clay county ,Ky, and his middle name is Clay, Henry Clay Combs
This huge rock came from my family farm when it fell. Crazy this poped up on CZcams. Ha
I would like to have your number so we can talk
Amen to keeping the history, I hope you are able speak with Elders and document everything they speak for prosperity.You know the story but can it be documented, or added onto. Peace
I live in this area and have Native American ancestry, so I know a lot about these and other writings in Eastern Kentucky. The original Cherokee carvings was modified by a preacher in the mid-late 1800s to try to convince people that Europeans was in this area before the Native Americans. This is why the rock was removed from the historic register. People in this area know that already. The reason it was easy to modify is Sequoyah used symbols similar to Jewish language. There are MANY writings in this area. If you go to other sites, you quickly realize this rock was modified. Also, the Brocks in this area are descended from Red Bird. My Sizemore family, however, are Catawba Indians that moved to Clay County. Both did intermarry
sorry, meant mid-late 1700s....John Filson is his name.
Found this site today. My grandmother was a Brock from Redbird, Ky. Would like to know more of my family history. We could easily be cousins!
Why would a preacher climb a hill and modify a rock, Who would he had shown? Where is the information on this claim? There is more than one or two of these examples even into WV , the Cherokee moved into the area out of the MI area maybe around mid 1500's , This woman on here claiming Cherokee were here for thousands of years is just wrong, They may have even been Yuchi indians dotted around the area as well that the Cherokee ran out of the area or dissolved them.
Mike Fields hello Mike, is there any way I can get in contact with you? I’ve been trying to trace my ancestry and what I’ve found is I’m a direct descendant of Aaron Brock who is reportedly Chief Red Bird
P.s James Clark is not my real name lol
I kinda have a pet peeve when people call native Americans, Indians no Native American was from India they just thought they where in India when they arrived in the americas, my teacher drilled it into my head when I was in 5th grade so now I can’t say Indians without cringing😭
If this interests you check out paintlick in southwest Virginia, really awesome artwork, not sure how old.
I live about 45 minutes from the paint lick site dead in the middle of great Southwest Virginia!!! Nowhere in the entire world is better than these Appalachian mountains I have always and always will call home!!!
Pro trick: you can watch movies at kaldrostream. Been using them for watching loads of movies these days.
@Malcolm Denver definitely, I have been watching on flixzone} for years myself :D
@Malcolm Denver definitely, been using Flixzone} for months myself :D
His-story = thier-story
Some of those petroglyphs are paleo to archaic time period. Over 5k years old
Look up Electric Universe. These are plasmoid shapes from the sky, and are found around the world.
You can find these in the KY Rock Art book, and you can also find the truth in this recorded interview from Thomas Jefferson's diaries:
"Jefferson, who often is referred to as the father of American archaeology, was fascinated with both mastodons and the Ice Age Americans. Unlike Franklin, (speaking about Big Bone Lick, KY), Jefferson was convinced that people lived in the Americas at the same time mastodons were living at Big Bone Lick. His reasoning was based, in part, on an oral tradition of Delaware Indians, which he had recorded firsthand. During the American Revolution, Jefferson had met with a group of Delaware Warriors and asked them, "What happened to the great animal whose bones were found at the salt licks on the Ohio?" A Chief in the group stood up and said,
'In ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big Bone Licks, and began a universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians; that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended on the Earth, seated himself on a neighboring mountain, on a rock of which his seat and the print of his feet, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull who, presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.'
~In Search of Ice Age Americans, Tankersley, p51-52
drive.google.com/open?id=0ByRZ_FN_vit_Yk5pNnRPdFFNNFU
drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByRZ_FN_vit_ZjJXbUwtZ0lITjA?usp=sharing
Shifu Careaga thank you for the information!! Very very interesting!
The woman that keeps referring to Native Americans as "Indians" basically said she was 1/32 Cherokee. While the script she was reading was accurate I do not think she was any part Cherokee.
Who can I get ahold of to help me find out if my research on my ancestry is accurate? I’ve found that I’m related to Chief Red Bird of the Chickamauga Cherokee in this region.
My Fields was Chickamauga Cherokee
Josh are you a Sizemore?
My mom was a Helton. I'm just beginning my journey on Ancestry, but daughter is working with my uncle, and they have a lot of info on Chief Red Bird in our family tree.
Crusaders
I am Cherokee paint clan
Chief Red Bird is in my family somehow...I've not connected everything on ancestry yet. Slowly but surely things are coming together.
He is my ancestor too
You might not find him in any records.....maybe....My grandmother can only be found in census records because she married a white man. There is only 1 known picture of her and she was wearing a "Trail Of Tears Dress" which she was also buried in.
I'm part Cherokee as well. My question is" Just how did the Cherokee learn to write first century Greek, Hebrew, Old Libyan, Old Arabic, Iberian-Punic, Ogam, Germanic Rune, & Tiffinag-Numidian? Since all these known old world languages are written in these petroglyphs , At Red Bird. Proving that there were pre Columbus inhabitants in America, that weren't Native American .
Why would a educational video hide the obvious?
Standard Science would have you believe some nutwing educated linguist got out there and defaced the petroglyphs afterwards, to convince you "there's nothing to see here."
This is the same problem they have with the map showing Antarctica's coastline from 1531...
Clearly you are right. There were worldwide Atlantean-like civilizations building pyramids 10-12k years ago, and we are finding their pyramids now in the ocean and in Dwarka,, and even finding lost continents and subcontinents...
Big things happened that the Bible can only allude to, being younger than these events (physically written later). There were actually multiple floods, and at least one Great Flood. You can see it where parts of the pyramid's limestone casing are washed away.
Soon I am going to make a followup video on the Electric Universe and talk about some of these things. KY/Ohio's heritage has a big part to play in all of this.
Amen Treeoflife I believe the Cherokee were a great people,but there is plenty of history here they do not want us to know
IT IS HEBREW!!!!!!
and Greek and lattin too
Paleo Hebrew
Ancient graffiti artist. Made to pass time, when they had nothing else to do.
This is a solstice cave...the script at its oldest us solex-mal. ..this was wrote on by Cherokee but it wasnt theirs
Those caves are a calendar that mark out a 25,920 year cycle. The 12 major dashes on the walls represent the farthest point light reaches on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The cycle repeats, each section of 12 is called an age, just left the age of Pisces, hence Jesus and the fish, we were in Aries, hence Abraham and the ram and so on.
Get the money back on your PhDs and stop wasting our tax dollars on fake western education. Do some real research please.
Then whos was it?
min 2:00 LOL!!! the point is the charcoal is 2000 years old... duh. You make charcoal by burning wood. Humans burn wood. Charcoal 2000 years old isn't just lying around waiting to be used to write with. *facepalm* That's because some of the drawings ARE 2000 years old...
I Believe this woman is correct in that these petroglyphs are from the ancestors of the Cherokee people. Many of these petroglyphs are symbols of an alien sky which people from all over the earth witnessed see (Symbols of an Alien Sky) with Dave Talbott on the thunderbolts you-tube channel for more.
LOL LOL LOL
These most likely belong to the aboriginals not the Native Americans.
LOL LOL LOL
there was a giant indian city at sextons creek at the mound at the beginning of the mile strechwhich needs to be dug up and cataloged this was a great villiage of civilized peope before white people or Spanish discovered america