Reclaiming The Past, Reshaping The Narrative

Welcome

On behalf of the Ancient American Indigenous Peoples Historical Society, I am pleased to introduce our organization and invite you to join a growing network committed to the ethical study, preservation, and public education of Indigenous histories across the Americas. Our purpose is to support rigorous scholarship, center Indigenous knowledge and leadership, and promote programs that return cultural authority and benefits to descendant communities.

Our society convenes scholars, cultural practitioners, tribal representatives, educators, archivists, and public historians who share a dedication to truth-telling, methodological transparency, and respectful collaboration. We prioritize community-led research, oral-history partnerships, knowledgeable consent, and culturally appropriate protocols for stewardship and interpretation. Our work seeks to correct colonial misrepresentations, elevate Indigenous epistemologies, and protect material and intellectual heritage.

We pursue this mission through a combination of activities: public lectures and symposia, community-curated exhibitions, curriculum development for K–12 and higher education, ethical fieldwork training, and support for repatriation and museum partnerships. We also provide capacity-building workshops for tribal cultural offices, grants for community research, and accessible resources for teachers and the public that emphasize Indigenous perspectives on agriculture, architecture, governance, and cosmology.

We welcome collaboration with tribal nations, cultural institutions, academic departments, schools, and funders who share our commitment to respect, reciprocity, and accountability. If you would like to explore partnership opportunities, host a program, or receive our quarterly newsletter and resource packets, please contact us at the email address above.

With respect and solidarity,

Alim Ali
Director
Ancient American Indigenous Peoples Historical Society

To the book America Before-The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

 INTRODUCTION  I HAVE IN MY SHELVES A renowned and much respected book titled History  Begins at Sumer.1  The reference, of course, is to the famous high civilization of the Sumerians that began to take shape in Mesopotamia—roughly modern  Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—around 6,000 years ago.  Several centuries later, ancient Egypt, the very epitome of an elegant and sophisticated civilization of antiquity, became a unified state. Before bursting into full bloom, however, both Egypt and Sumer had long and mysterious prehistoric backgrounds in which many of the formative ideas of their historic periods were already present.  After the Sumerians and Egyptians followed an unbroken succession of  Akkadians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, and there were,  moreover, the incredible achievements of ancient India and ancient China. It therefore became second nature for us to think of civilization as an “Old  World” invention and not to associate it with the “New World” at all.  Besides, it was standard teaching in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the Americas—North, Central, and South—were among the last great landmasses on earth to be inhabited by humans, that these humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers, that most of them subsequently remained hunter- gatherers, and that nothing much of great cultural significance began to happen there until relatively recently.  This teaching is deeply in error, and as we near the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, scholars are unanimous not only that it must be thrown out but also that an entirely new paradigm of the prehistory of the Americas is called for. Such momentous shifts in science don’t occur without good reason, and the reason in this case, very simply, is that a mass of compelling new evidence has come to light that completely contradicts and refutes the previous paradigm.  
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