EBCI Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed
Richard G. Sneed life’s work has been one of public service advocating for youth, community building, and cultural preservation. The son of a businessman and former councilmember, he knows that…
FINDING FORT LOVELL
Michael Wren is a native of Tucson Arizona but grew up in north Alabama. He is a graduate of Auburn University. Mike recently retired from a multi-national company providing tax-leveraged…
“Their Determination to Remain”:A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina
Lance Greene is a Professor of Anthropology at Wright State University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an historical archaeologist who…
The Act of Remembering: A Deep Map of Cherokee Forced Removal
Deborah Kirk is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a PhD Candidate in Geography at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University. Deborah’s research interests lie at…
“The feet of our old people bled, our young children cried, and our horses died by the way:” The Removal of the Muscogee People to Present-day Oklahoma
Christopher D. Haveman is the author of Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and EthnicCleansing in the American South, and Bending Their Way Onward: Creek Indian Removal in Documents.…
Cherokee Architecture: New Insights from Cultural Resource Management Archaeology in Southwestern North Carolina
Dr. Ben Steere is the director of the Cherokee Studies program and associate professor of anthropology at Western Carolina University. Dr. Steere has worked on a collaborative study of ancestral…
NPS National Trails High Potential Historic Sites and High Potential Route Segments Protocol
Jill Jensen is the Lead Planner for the National Park Service (NPS) National Trails office in Santa Fe, NM. The National Trails office administers nine National Historic Trails spanning more than 25,000 miles across 24…
The Trail of Tears through the Raven Creek Settlement, aka Needmore, Little Tennessee River
Lamar Marshall is Research Director for Southeast Heritage. He founded the non-profit conservation organization Wild South. His background includes 24 years in industrial engineering, land surveying, and plat production, and…