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Newsletter of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Partnership • Spring 2019 – Number 31 TRAIL OF TEARS CURRICULUM PROJECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION University of North Alabama PICTURED: At the spring 2018 TOTA national LEFT TO RIGHT: BRIAN board meeting, a vote to partner with CORRIGAN, PUBLIC HISTORIAN/ MSNHA, DR. JEFFREY BIBBEE, the University of North Alabama to PROFESSOR FROM UNA/ALTOTA create a national curriculum for k-12 MEMBER , JUDY SIZEMORE, students on the Trail of Tears cleared MUSCLE SHOALS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA/ALTOTA the board and gave partners a green MEMBER, ANNA MULLICAN light to begin laying the framework for ARCHAEOLOGIST/EDUCATOR- TOTA’s first ever large-scale curriculum OAKVILLE INDIAN MOUNDS, ANITA FLANAGAN, EASTERN project. BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS CITIZEN/ALTOTA BOARD Since then, there has been much MEMBER, DR. CARRIE BARSKE- CRAWFORD, DIRECTOR/MUSCLE ground covered to begin building SHOALS NATIONAL HERITAGE partners for the curriculum with not AREA, SETH ARMSTRONG PUBLIC only TOTA and UNA but also with HISTORIAN/PROFESSOR/ALTOTA MEMBER, SHANNON KEITH, the Muscle Shoals National Heritage ALTOTA CHAPTER PRESIDENT. Area. Just under one year out, our UNA and TOTA are committed to creating Educating students about the trail, who was Alabama planning group has secured something truly transformational for impacted, and the consequences for everyone $20,000.00 from the Muscle Shoals teachers around the country.” involved is essential. This cross-curriculum National Heritage Area, $25,000.00 project will allow teachers to introduce the from the University of North Alabama Dr. Carrie Barske-Crawford, Director of subject into their classes in multiple ways, and another $100,000.00 in in-kind the Muscle Shoals National Heritage hopefully enforcing just how important this contributions from UNA. We are Area had the following to say. moment in history was to students.” currently awaiting a $50,000.00 request from the Alabama Legislature “The Muscle Shoals National Heritage Article contributed by Shannon Keith, President to create a work space for interns to Area is excited to partner with the Trail of the Alabama Trail of Tears Chapter help work on this project as well as of Tears Association meeting space for the groups to get and the University work done cooperatively. of North Alabama on this exciting We will be working on the next fund- and much-needed raising phase within the next few project. The Trail months. If you or your organization of Tears shaped is interested in supporting this life in our region project with a donation, please in dramatic ways. MUSCLE SHOALS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA AND THE NATIONIONAL TRAIL OF TEARS contact Troy Wayne Poteete at the ASSOCIATION ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE TRAIL OF TEARS CURRICULUM A REALITY. TOTA headquarters to obtain official information on donations. At the spring 2019 TOTA national board meeting, representatives from UNA and the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area plan to attend the workshop put on by UNA professor, Dr. Jeffrey Bibbee. Dr. Bibbee has been a champion of this project from day one. He has worked hard to obtain funding and to lay out a basic Phase I structure for implementation. Now, it is time to bring TOTA into the planning of shaping that structure and advising into the implementation phase. Dr. Bibbee best sums up the importance of the project with this quote: “This is a national, if not global project, that seeks to bring this part of our history to each and every classroom in the USA. 2 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • Spring 2019 UPCOMING TOTA EVENTS TRAIL OF TEARS HISTORIC TRAIL NEWS Now available thru the new Indigenous Source Academic database March 9th, 2019 the Trail of Tears to a far Georgia Chapter Meeting larger audience than we 10:30am-501 Riverside Pkwy, Rome, GA have ever had before. We Cherokee/Creek Relationship (Part 1) will reach internationally “The Red Stick War” by W. Jeff Biship into institutions who have possibly never heard of March 29th & 30th, 2019 our existence and into the Grand Re-Opening of Hiwassee River Center hands of researchers and Events - See box on bottom of page 3 educators who can help teach about this piece of history that still to this day March 30th, 2019 EBSCO INFO SERVICES HEADQUARTERS, IPSWICH, MA causes issues in the daily AR Chapter Spring Meeting & Public Program The Trail of Tears Association has lives of Native people. Having been Sequoyah National Research Center (SNRC) entered into an agreement whereby an academic librarian, it thrills my Little Rock, AR its Newsletter is now included in the soul to see that EBSCO continues Trail of Tears Resources and Research at SNRC databases utilized by Libraries all over to reach outward to build this Dr. Daniel Littlefield, SNRC Director the country. much needed genre of information and to disseminate it to a larger The Trail of Tears National Historic audience,” said AL Chapter Pres. April 6th, 2019 Trail News was nominated for Shannon Keith, who holds a Masters Oklahoma Chapter Spring Meeting inclusion on a new database to be in Library and Information Science 10:00am-Community Building Located Behind called Indigenous Source for use in from the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, Restaurant of the Cherokees, Tahlequah, OK Academic and University libraries. The Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Daniel Littlefield, Seq. 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EBSCO Tellico Plains, TN is the leading provider of research Library patrons typically use EBSCO’s databases, e-journals, magazine databases to run a keyword search similar to how you would use a July 13th, 2019 subscriptions, e-books and discovery Georgia Chapter Meeting service to libraries of all kinds. commercial search engine (Google, (“EBSCO” is an acronym for Elton B. Yahoo, etc.). The results display a Bartow History Museum Stephens Co.) list of articles from many different 10:30am-4 E Church Street, Cartersville, GA publications. Along with each Cherokee/Creek Relationship (Part 3) “The EBSCO determination to record is a live link that directs traffic Speaker to be announced include the TOTA Newsletter in their back to that publications website. Indigenous offerings shows a very This gives the TOTA Newsletter September 13th, 2019 high level vote of confidence into our exposure and directs web traffic to Georgia Chapter Meeting activities and research. TOTA now the TOTA website originating from Rock Eagle 4H Center has the ability to get information out those using an EBSCO database in a 10:30am-350 Rock Eagle Rd. Eatonton, GA about the role we are taking on to library. Cherokee/Creek Relationship (Part 4) preserve the story and the legacy of “The Removal and the Antebellum South” by Dr. Claudioi Saunt Grand Re-Opening of Hiwassee River Center Events: Charleston-Calhoun-Hiwassee Historical Society October 12th-13th, 2019 March 29 -- Dr. Brett Riggs presentation on his completed Fort Cass Research --6:30 p.m 24th Annual National Conference & Symposium - Walker Valley High School, 750 Lauderdale Memorial Hwy, Cleveland, TN (near Charleston) Holiday Inn - Paducah, KY (Riverfront) 600N 4th St, Paducah, KY 42001 March 30 -- Hiwassee River Center Opens to the Public-- Noon Phone # - 270-366-7614 - Afternoon Lecture Series presented at the River Center Education Room Room Block: Trail of Tears 2019 Conference 1:00 McMinn County Sherriff Joe Guy--History of Walkers Ferry on the Hiwassee or (TTC) - Room Rate $89+tax 2:00 Troy Wayne Poteete--Charleston-Calhoun’s Cherokee Characters 3:00 Jim Ogden---Civil War Times on the Hiwassee 4:00 Laura Spann---Development of the Twin Cities on the Hiwassee after the Civil War (Event Information is Subject to Change) Spring 2019 • Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News 3 CHEROKEE CYCLISTS PREPARING FOR ANNUAL “REMEMBER THE REMOVAL” RIDE away until 2009 when the Cherokee Nation Education Department revived the ride again with the idea of developing leadership in Cherokee youth and to give them confidence to take on future life challenges. This is the 12th time Cherokee cyclists will retrace the Northern Route. Today, the bicycle ride begins in New Echota, Georgia, the last capital of the Cherokee Nation before the forced removals. Cyclists travel an average of 60 miles a day, experiencing a small “REMEMBER THE REMOVAL” CYCLISTS CIRCLE UP TO PRAY BEFORE EMBARKING ON THEIR JOURNEY. part of the hardships their Cherokee ancestors faced as they made the same TAHLEQUAH - Preparations are being “TOTA’s incredible generosity to the trek on foot, by horse and by wagon. made for the 2019 “Remember the ‘Remember the Removal’ bike ride Removal” bicycle ride as youth and makes a lasting impact on all of the Article written by Will Chavez, Staff writer for mentor riders from the Cherokee riders as well as their family members the Cherokee Phoenix Nation and Eastern Band of Cherokee and the communities that witness Indians train to face to challenge of their kind acts,” said 2017 RTR cyclist riding the Northern Route of the Trail Raven Girty of Gore, Oklahoma.