Friday, Nov. 15 at the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center
Schedule
| 9:00-9:15 | Dr. Anne Rogers | Welcome |
| *Western Carolina University: President North Carolina Trail of Tears Association
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| 9:15-9:45 | Yona Wade | Remember the Removal 2013 Bike Ride |
| *Director Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center; Cherokee Central Schools
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| 9:45-10:15 | Annette Clapsaddle | Penning Collective Memory: The Trail of Tears in Literature |
| *Executive Director Cherokee Preservation Foundation
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| 10:30-11:15 | Dr. Ben Steere | Cherokee Towns and Mounds in WNC Pre-Removal |
| *University of West Georgia
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| 11:15-12:00 | T.J. Holland | Cherokee Resistance to Removal in Western North Carolina |
| *EBCI Cultural Resource Supervisor; Manager Junaluska Museum
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| 1:00-1:15 | Dr. Anne Rogers | Welcome
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| 1:15- 1:45 | Dr. Michael Abram | Cherokee Artistic Expressions of the Trail of Tears |
| *Curator Cherokee Heritage Museum
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| 1:45- 2:15 | Dr. Carolyn Johnston | Women’s Voices on the Trail of Tears |
| *Eckerd College
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| 2:30- 3:00 | Tyler B. Howe | Ethnogenesis of the EBCI and its Relationship to the Removal |
| *Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office
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| 3:00-3:30 | Dr. William Jurgelski | A Foreshadowing of Future Woes: The Treaty of 1819 and its Effect on the Cherokees of Western North Carolina
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| 3:30-4:15 | Russ Townsend | Resistance to Removal in Western North Carolina |
| *Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office
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| 4:15-4:30 | Dr. Anne Rogers | The NC Trail of Tears Association and the Future |
A dinner ($25) with keynote speaker Dr. Brett Riggs, UNC-Chapel Hill, will follow at 6:30 p.m. A pilgrimage by bus to important WNC removal sites is scheduled, Saturday, Nov. 16 ($40 w/box lunch). Due to limited space, these two events are available through paid registration ONLY.
Info: Sue Abram (828) 227-2735 or smabram@email.wcu.edu or Anne Rogers (828) 349-1341, rogers@email.wcu.edu. Mail registration checks to Anita Finger-Smith, 4999 Wolfetown Road, Cherokee, NC 28719.
– N.C. Trail of Tears Association
