What the Cherokee Said About the People Who Could Not Live in Daylight — Written Down in 1797

There is a paragraph in a 1797 book that almost everyone quotes and nobody finishes. It is four sentences long, it sits on page forty-four of the preface, and every book, plaque and video about the Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia grows out of it. The next sentence explains the whole thing — and it has been sitting there, unread, since George Washington was president. Sources referenced in this video include Benjamin Smith Barton's New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (1797), John Haywood's Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee (1823), James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900), and Lionel Wafer's A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America (1699). This video reads historical documents and scholarly debate; interpretations are presented for educational purposes. Illustrations are AI generated reconstructions. CHAPTERS 0:00 The four sentences everyone quotes 2:35 The next sentence nobody reads 7:42 The second witness, and who actually told him 10:51 Hoes, axes, and guns 12:49 The houses with dirt on them 14:55 What Mooney actually wrote down 19:59 The place on the river 23:46 The wall and the plaque 27:17 The children of the moon 29:44 What the record will support #mooneyedpeople #cherokee #appalachia