A Memoir of Chief Two White Feathers

By Donald Panther-Yates

This record of interviews with Paul Russell, also known as Chief Two White Feathers of the Tihanama, a Middle Tennessee spiritual practitioner, dates from 1996.
“Paul Russell (Two White Feathers) is a spiritual healer, herbalist, principal chief, storyteller and teacher, ceremony chief, conjurer, traditional grass and straight dancer, keeper of seer traditions, amateur astronomer and geophysicist, painter, leather worker, jeweler, mechanical engineer, computer programmer, third-level Midéwiwin Lodge priest, flue and drum maker, songwriter, singer, composer, recording artist, stone carver, potter, mask and mandela maker, knife maker and gunsmith, bow and arrow maker and woodworker/carpenter.” —American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, ed. Suzanne J. Crawford and Dennis Francis Kelley (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005), vol. III, p. 1043.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Panther's Lodge
• Release date: May 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301989539

Donald Panther-Yates

Donald N. Yates (also published as Donald Panther-Yates) is an American genealogist, historian and DNA investigator born in Georgia. He is chairman emeritus of Panther's Lodge Publishers and lives in Phoenix. He was educated at Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stetson University, University of Vienna and University of Freiburg. His latest traditionally published book (with Elizabeth C. Hirschman) is The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales: A Genetic and Genealogical History (McFarland, summer 2013).

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