Cherokee Nation - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 1/29/26
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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George Noory and Dr. Daniel Wilson discuss the idea of Native American tribes having contact with aliens long before they appeared in modern civilization, references to Native Americans in popular culture, and rules and mythologies about interacting with the natural world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.1 | George Norrie with you, Dr. Daniel H. Wilson with us, Cherokee Citizen |
| 0:14.8 | and a New York Times bestselling author. |
| 0:17.8 | His book is called Hole in the Sky. |
| 0:20.3 | He has earned a Ph. a PhD in robotics from the Carnegie |
| 0:23.2 | Mellon University, as well as a master's degrees in machine and learning and robotics as well. |
| 0:29.6 | Daniel, welcome back to the program. How have you been? Hey, good. Hey, George. It's great to be back. |
| 0:35.2 | Had a good year. Looking forward to this. |
| 0:37.8 | There's about, what, 450,000 members of the Cherokee tribe? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, that's about right. |
| 0:43.9 | Based primarily in Oklahoma, I would guess, right? |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:48.5 | They were forced marched out there, you know, in the 1800s on what people called the |
| 0:53.8 | Trail Tiers, but forced removal. |
| 0:56.3 | And it's kind of like a government within a government, isn't it? |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. So, you know, it's kind of interesting. |
| 1:02.3 | Oklahoma used to be Indian territory. |
| 1:05.1 | And then at some point, the five tribes were set up there as sovereign governments. |
| 1:10.2 | So they kind of exist on top of |
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