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Newsletter of the National Historic Trail Partnership • September 2016 – Number 26 on the National Trail of Tears Board, said the final remarks. After the cyclist departed the Park, she led the students and their teachers on the walk to the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail where the crossed the Roubidoux Creek in the Winter of 1838-39 on the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears.

John Cannella joined the walk on the Trail at the crossing answering questions. ...AFTER THE CONFERENCE! DINNER AT RED CLAY STATE PARK WEDNESDAY EVENING The Red Clay State Park would like to invite all conference attendees out to the park after the conclusion of the NPS 2016 Centennial Event National TOTA Conference. We will be Waynesville, MO providing dinner starting at 6:15 PM to On the banks of Roubidoux Creek, in told them that is what happened to the all of those who RSVP to erin.medley@ tn.gov. at 7pm. We will have storytelling Waynesville, Missouri, Friday, June 17, Cherokees People during the Removal. by Troy Poteete on the COLORFUL third graders filed into Laughlin Park State Representative Rocky Miller spoke CHEROKEES WHO SPRUNG FROM from their school bus to be a part of a few words to the crowd in Cherokee. BRADLEY AND MCMINN COUNTIES: a 2016 2016 He is the only Cherokee Citizen serving True Tales of the Lively Descendants of Centennial Event, on the Trail of Tears in the Missouri House of Representatives. Elizabeth Sevier Morgan Walker. Please National Historic Trail. come and join us for this educational and Stacy Leeds presented the Cherokee entertaining experience. Hunter Stewart, 8, a Cherokee Citizen the Remember the Removal Bike Riders to son of Stacy Leeds (Cherokee), Dean and the large crowd assembled in the park. Professor of Law, University of Arkansas, NPS SIGN DEDICATION of Fayetteville, AR, and Michael Stewart Mayor Luge Hardman presented each THURSDAY MORNING (Choctaw) handed out the Trail of Tears Cherokee bike rider with a Route 66 lapel The National Park Service is pleased to NPS Junior Ranger Program sheet before pen from the City of Waynesville. announce the dedication of new signs to the event started. Hunter led the Pledge The represented by mark an Original Route Segment of the of Allegiance after the Waynesville the bike riders with Stacy Leeds as the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail within Boy Scouts presented the Colors. State presenter, gave the Waynesville City Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Representative Steve Lynch offered a officials a recognition plaque. Military Park. Please join park staff and Centennial prayer. The cyclist mounted their bike and supporters on Thursday, October 6, formed a circle, performed their 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, 3370 Lafayette Waynesville Mayor Luge Hardman gave ceremony, prayed, and left out on the Road, Fort Oglethorpe, for the the welcome and opening remarks. City trail headed for the Old Route 66 sign dedication. Deputy Superintendent John Cannella, Bridge and Route 66, that is parallel to National Park Service-National Historic the Trail at that point at the Cherokee Trails Intermountain Region Office, Campsite. Santa Fe, NM, talked about their mission NPS SIGN DEDICATION and the administering of nine National Col. Andrew Herbst, Garrison THURSDAY LUNCH Historic Trails. He told the students about Commander, Fort Leonard Wood The Charleston, Calhoun, Hiwassee the NPS Trail of Tears Junior Ranger and Mike Curtis, Waynesville City Historical Society invites Conference Project. Councilman, joined the cyclists on attendees to join them at Hiwassee the trek to Lebanon. The cyclists River Heritage Center, 8746 Hiwassee David Rauch from U. S. Senator Clare were escorted out of the City by the St., Charleston, TN () for a light lunch followed by a groundbreaking and McCaskill’s office, asked what if someone Waynesville City Police. sign dedication on Thursday October came in the middle of the night and 6th. Lunch will be served beginning at “knocked on their door” and told them Deloris Gray Wood, President Missouri 12:30PM. that they had to leave their home. He Chapter Trail of Tears Association and

2 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • September 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKER BRETT RIGGS Dr. Riggs is Distinguished Professor of the Cherokee Studies at West Carolina University in Cullowhwhee, North Carolina. He specializes in Cherokee studies and, for more than twenty years, has worked in southwestern North Carolina to shed light on the lives of Cherokee families during the removal era of the 1830s.

2016 TOTA Conference ENTERTAINMENT BECKY HOBBS TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Cherokee Nation citizen Becky Hobbs, a singing, songwriting Monday, October 3rd pianist was inducted into the 8:00am - Noon...... Registration - Conference Center Music Hall of Fame in 2015. She has charted many 8:30am - 11:45am...... TOTA Board of Directors meeting country hits, written songs for Noon - 1:15pm...... Lunch a multitude of other artists and Welcome Georgia Chapter President and Introduce local in recent years she honored her 5th great grandmother, Nancy dignitaries. Ward with a 17 song musical, “Nanyehi - The Story of ”. 1:30pm - 2:30pm...... Keynote Speaker Dr. Brett Riggs She also penned and recorded, “Tsa-La-Gi-We are Many” which was Tsa-La-Gi-U-Weli: “Leaving the Sacred Places Behind” recorded by the Cherokee Nation Youth Choir. 2:45pm - 3:45pm...... Concurrent Sessions 4:00pm - 5:00pm...... Concurrent Sessions Concurrent Session Speakers 6:00pm...... Reception at Dalton Distillery Brett Riggs on the Banjo & Becky Hobbs performing her original Georgia DeWeese country hits and other performances by conference attendees. The Dendroarchaeology of the Green Hotel, Tuesday, October 4th Cave Spring, Georgia, USA 8:30am - 9:00am...... Board Busses for Field Trip Field Trip to - Cherokee Nation Pre-removal Capitol Barbara Kawulich We will be visiting the Vann House, in Chattsworth, GA for a sign Sowing the Seeds of Culture: dedication and Lunch and then continue the bus tour along The Role of Muscogee (Creek) Women throughout History Highway 411 to the Rockdale Plantation. 2:00pm - 3:00pm...... Presentations at Rockdale Plantation Jeff Bishop - History of Rockdale Jim Langford Amy Kostine - Observations on Preservation DeSoto in Northwest Georgia: 3:00pm - 4:30pm...... Group Tours of House When the World Came Crashing Down with hosts Kenny & Sue Hix 5:00pm...... Traditional Chickasaw Meal John Latty 6:00pm - 7:00pm...... Becky Hobbs Performs Carrying Off the Cherokee Becky will perform hymns in Cherokee, Selections from her musical, Nanyehi and some of her original songs including “We are Many.” Ben Steere Wednesday, October 5th Mounds, Houses, and Home Fires: 9:00am - 10:45am...... Annual Membership Meeting Understanding the Built Environment of the Cherokee Heartland Chapter reports & NPS Report 11:15am - 12:00pm...... General Session Alfie Vick Youth Presentation & Remember the Removal Bike Riders Plants and Landscape of the Cherokees Presentation 12:15pm - 1:45pm...... Final Lunch Christina Snyder Grand Door Prize Drawing 2:30pm - 3:30pm...... Concurrent Sessions Choctaw Academy, KY, A school for American Indian Boys during the removal era.

September 2016 • Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News 3 quite unique.

Each stone in the memorial was taken from areas with special significance. The primary marble stone was extracted from the same area where three of the tribes started on the Trail. The two small stones at the entrane of the memorial site came from a hill top overlooking the Old Military Road south of Ozark. The 5 small rock’s located in the garden at the 2016 TOTA back that were taken from an important place where each Tribe first settled upon UPCOMING EVENTS reaching . September 10th, 2016 Main Street Ozark of Ozark, Arkansas is TOTA meeting at the Vann House sponsoring this beautiful Trail of Tears Chatsworth, GA - 10:30am Memorial to be dedicated Sept. 24, 2016, at 1PM. The Marble Memorial is located September 10th-11th, 2016 MAIN STREET OZARK on the Arkansas River in the Ozark down 25th Annual Cherokee Fall Festival town area. Sequoyah Birthplace Museum MEMORIAL STONE Main Street Ozark has constructed a The main speaker for the memorial September 24th, 2016 memorial to honor the five civilized ceremony will be Cherokee Nation Main Street Ozark Memorial Stone Dedication tribes that passed through Ozark by land Chief Justice, Troy Wayne Poteete. Also in Ozark, AR. and the Arkansas River on the Trail. featured at the ceremoy will be the Cherokee National Youth Choir and Oct. 3rd - 5th, 2016 The memorial was fashioned out of Seminole Assistant Chief, Lewis Johnson Trail of Tears Assoc Annual Conference Dalton, Cherokee Marble from Georgia which is who will be performing Indian Flute GA (see page 10) what makes this particular monument music. Oct. 5th, 2016 Dinner & Storytelling at Red Clay State Park after the conclusion of the TOTA Conference (See Page 2) October 6th, 2016 National Parks Service Sign Dedication Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (See Page 2) October 6th, 2016 Lunch & Ground Breaking and Sign Dedication Hiwassee River Heritage Center Charleston, TN (See Page 2) October 15, 2016 Grave Marking for Margaret “Peggy” Easky Dick at Tahlequah City Cemetery Tahlequah, Oklahoma (See Page 7) November 5th, 2016 Annual Trail of Tears Memorial Walk at David Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, TN November 5th, 2016 Speaker Dr. Duane King Oklahoma Chapter Meeting (See Page 7) November 12, 2016 ARTOTA Event at Lake Dardanelle

*Event Dates are Subject to change.

4 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • September 2016 Trail of Tears Association State Chapter News

ARKANSAS MISSOURI MISSOURI (continued)

After the election of board members, NATIONAL Historic Trail is a 175 mile trail restored Carolyn Kent presented a program on the HISTORIC TRAIL WORKSHOPS and established in 2000 by the National history of Van Buren. A post office was Like most Partnership for the National Park Service. The trail covers over 200 established there in 1831 and the town Trails System National Historic of the Big Island’s original ahupuaa (the site was purchased for $11,000 in 1836. Trail Workshops the one held in traditional Hawaiian mountain to sea John Drennan built his house in 1836 Independence, MO, June 6-9 2016, was divisions of the islands) and connects and moved his family in by 1837. A tour intense with few moments to spare. several ancient Hawaiian fisherman trails. was given of the Drennan-Scott property Travis Boley, Oregon-California Trails Mobile Workshops took participants (which includes John Drennan’s original Association Manager and Ross Marshall, to the Missouri Highway Department 1836 house) and a complete history of PNTS Board Vice President were two local Dedication of the Powder Mill Bridge; the family given from the earliest years men who worked very hard as hosts to another at the Truman Courthouse; to the creation of the museum by site have a great workshop. another at McCoy Park and a trail walk to volunteer, Greg Hall. Mill Creek Park; a visit to Wayne’s Landing Federal Partners actively participating in and dinner at Mallinson Vineyard. The “Remember the Removal Riders” the Workshop and the Trail Apprentice came through Northwest Arkansas June Program were Aaron Mahr, NPS-NHT; and 21 and 22, 2016. They were welcomed Rita Hennessy, Assistant Park Manager, ILLINOIS at the Pea Ridge National Military NPS Appalachian National Scenic Trail; Park, treated to a cookout by park Christopher Douwes, Federal Highways; superintendent Kevin Eads and then and Rob Sweeten, Bureau of Land participated in a special event as they Management, Utah. Federal Partners rode into the University of Arkansas fund the Trail Apprentice Program. Razorback Football Stadium and were Workshop sessions related to board welcomed by Razorback head coach Bret building and the Three Trails in an Urban Bielema. Stacy Leeds, dean of the U of A scene. Law School and member of the Cherokee Riders pose for photo on steps to Camp Ground Church. Nation, rode with the riders on this year’s Gary Warner, Executive Director June 12, an extremely hot and humid day journey. presented ideas for the next National in deep southern IL, the Remember the Conference with the Scenic Trails and the Removal riders were hosted for lunch by Research is continuing for original route 50 Anniversary of the National Historic our chapter board at the historic Camp signage in Arkansas with a focus on Trails in 2018. Ground Church and Cemetery east of Randolph, Benton, Washington, and Anna. The adjoining photos tell the story. Crawford counties. Kaleo Paik represented the Ala Kaha Kai Sunday, September 11, the summer general membership meeting will An ARTOTA event is being scheduled at Trail Association who talked about her begin at 3 p.m. CDT at Vienna City Park Lake Dardanelle State Park November ancestors and the land and its role in the located just east of the intersection 12, 2016. More information will be trail. Ala kaha kai means “shoreline trail” of US highway 45 and IL highway 146 forthcoming. in Hawaiian. The Ala Kahakai National in Vienna. The format will be casual, “meet and greet”, and exchanging of The Arkansas Chapter is excited about information. the coming 2017 National Conference to be held in the Ft. Smith, Arkansas area On Saturday, October 29, we will again in the fall of 2017. More details will be be offering our “all-day” guided bus tours available in the summer of 2017. following the trail from the Ohio River to the Mississippi River with the “famous” Main Street Ozark is sponsoring a Trail of box lunch included. This year we are Tears Memorial to be dedicated Sept. 24, going to try a different format: 2 half-day 2016, at 1PM. The memorial is located on trips. The a.m. trip will be from Golconda the Arkansas River at Ozark, AR. See the Deputy Superintendent John Cannella, National Park Service-National Historic Trails Intermountain to Vienna, the p.m. trip from Vienna to full story on page 3. Region Office, Santa Fe, NM addressing the crowd at the Trail of Tears commemoration of the NPS 100th Ware. Either tour will include lunch. Birthday at Laughlin Park, Waynesville, MO. ILLINOIS continued on next page

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ILLINOIS (continued) ALABAMA (continued) ALABAMA (continued)

To keep abreast of Illinois chapter news, majority of the distance from the spring the side of Lookout Mountain near its and more information on either of the and an above ground aqueduct for an base, and run through bored cedar logs above events, follow us on Facebook: unknown shorter distance. joined together and laid in a covered https://www.facebook.com/Trail-of- ditch to the house and thence to the Tears-Association-Illinois-Chapter The importance of the site is marked by road, entering the trough through a cane the spring that supplied water to the tube and thence to the road, entering ALABAMA Wills town Mission School constructed the trough through a cane placed in the THE WILLSTOWN MISSION AQUEDUCT PROJECT in 1823 by the American Board of center of the trough and rising above the The Alabama Chapter, Trail of Tears Commissioners for Foreign Missions water, so that persons passing could get Association had an exceptional (ABCFM). Water was also supplied to a cool refreshing drink.” opportunity to explore and the nearby community inhabited by archaeologically investigate property members of the Cherokee Nation. The Nestled at the western base of Lookout that is very likely associated with an Wills town Mission School near Fort Mountain just north of the city of Fort aqueduct that supplied water to the Payne is one of two missions constructed Payne, Alabama is a partially hidden and Willstown Mission School. The property in Alabama and had a spring fed unnamed spring with rushing water that is situated around 3 miles north, bathhouse with showers. Quite possibly dives into rock infrastructure. Evidence northeast from the center of downtown it was the first or one of the first such of previous use is apparent when peering Fort Payne and sits on 3 acres nestled showers fed by an aqueduct in Alabama. down into the opening of the spring along the western base of a northeast to Creek Path Mission School was also into a cave area extending back into southwest trending ridgeline on Lookout constructed by the ABCFM and is located Mountain (see below). Sharon Freeman is near Günter’s Landing.

The Wills town Mission School is historically significant as it is associated with Cherokee lifeway’s, the effort to eradicate Cherokee culture, and the mission school is a testament to the tumultuous time period for Cherokee the mountain for almost 30 feet with people. Many Cherokee children were very little headroom. There is a stone housed or boarded at the school and not man-made damn of unknown age, just allowed to speak their native Cherokee inside the opening of the cave, likely language. They were made to speak to preserve as much water as possible English and forced to study the Christian during drier times in the past. faith. After an initial survey in December “In front of the house [most certainly 2015, we decided to utilize Ground the house where the Chamberlin’s lived Penetrating Radar (GPR) to hopefully and later Col. Milford Howard} Mr. C. save time, energy, be more precise, and [Chamberlin] had a watering trough less destructive to any archaeological put up by the side of the road, which deposits and to the property in general. the Project Investigator and Larry Smith was raised just high enough for horses is the Historian/Researcher. to drink comfortably. The water came Although the results are extremely Larry Smith initiated the Willstown from a spring in a cave which was in exciting, additional archaeological Mission School Aqueduct Project, as he investigations are needed if we are to has tirelessly researched the area for make a determination that the feature in many years. He has remained steadfast Block B is in fact the Willstown Mission that there may exist remnants of a School aqueduct. Investigations would cedar pipe system that was utilized include ground truth testing and a to transport water from a spring to comprehensive plan to preserve, treat, the Willstown Mission School. The analyze, photograph, and ultimately transportation method was a below- store any cedar pipe segments or the-ground cedar log aqueduct for the fragments.

6 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • September 2016 Trail of Tears Association State Chapter News

KENTUCKY OKLAHOMA NORTH CAROLINA (continued)

In May, members of the Kentucky Trail Mark your calendars! The Oklahoma The NCTOTA’s members who attended of Tears Association met with Amy Chapter will have an honoring and grave the Dalton, GA TOTA workshop were Kostine of the Middle Tennessee Center marking on Saturday, October 15, 2016 inspired by the informative speakers. for Historic Preservation at the Hill at 2:00 pm for Margaret “Peggy” Easky They appreciated the guidance of Cemetery in Caldwell County. During Dick at the Tahlequah City Cemetery, NPS employees, Frank Norris and the meeting we worked on a 12.5 mile Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Chapter members Mike Taylor, and Dr. Carroll VanWest Pristine Trail segment for Nomination and descendants of Margaret “Peggy” from MTSU, who facilitated the final to National Register. Another meeting Easky Dick will gather at the cemetery plenary session “to strategize how to is scheduled in the fall to continue the where an honoring ceremony and best help identify and monitor sites/ work on this project. Later that day we the placing of a bronze plaque on the segments, list sites in danger, [and] act visited a Witness house that is located headstone will occur. on preservation needs.” beside the trail. A family member who accompanied us during our visit to the The plaque indicates that the honoree Congratulations to our new NC TOTA site shared with us some of his early endured the forced removal of the member, Dr. Rose Stremlau, on the Cherokees in 1838- 39, and has on the article of May 24 family history. The gentleman told of plaque a Trail of Tears National Historic covering her presentation, “The Last his great- great grandmother’s story of Trail emblem and the Cherokee Nation Generation and the First Generation: watching the Indians pass by on the Seal of September 6, 1839. Booklets Cherokee Children in Post-Removal trail that is located beside this specific providing the biographical and Indian Territory” during the “From witness house. genealogical information for Margaret Removal to Rebirth: The Cherokee “Peggy” Easky Dick will be given to all the Nation in Indian Territory” symposium We are currently working with city of participants at the ceremony. held at the Gilcrease Museum on April Paducah and National Park Service on 23. two wayside exhibits to be placed on our Waterfront certified site in Paducah. In late May, several members of This was a Water Route site. We hope to the Chapter attended the Fading have this project finished in the spring. Voices event held in the Snowbird While many detachments just passed Community of Robbinsville, Graham this site, two Creek detachments and County. TJ Holland MC’d the events four Cherokee stopped at Paducah site. while other members, including Brett Riggs, Anita Finger Smith, and In July we had our dedication and Doc and Sue Abram, had a great unveiling event at Columbus-Belmont time watching the stickball matches, State Park. During this time frame visiting with Cherokee friends, and, of we met with the Hickman County course, eating! Geneology. Later that evening Executive Photo courtesy of Dusty Helbling Director Troy Poteete presented a Grave Marking of Chief The North Carolina Trail of Tears lecture at the old courthouse in Clinton, Association was once again honored Kentucky. Dedication and unveiling was The fall meeting of the Oklahoma to co-host the 2016 “Remember the the following morning. John Cannelli, Chapter will be Saturday, November Removal Send Off Ceremony,” at Deputy Superintendent and Carol Clark 5, 2016 at 10:00 am at the Cherokee Kituwah near Cherokee on June 3. Interpretative Specialist NPS, along Casino, West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma. Cherokee elder and Beloved Man, with Kentucky State director of parks The speaker will be Dr. Duane King, an Jerry Wolfe, conducted a sacred and other state dignitaries were in author and knowledgeable researcher blessing for the bike riders on the attendance. This particular site is a site of . Dr. King is currently Kituwah Mound, considered the where land route and water route cross. director of the Helmerich Research Mother Town of the Cherokee. The The Benge Route camped at this site for Center located at the Gilcrease Museum, NCTOTA donated funds toward the ten days mid November 1838. The site Tulsa, Oklahoma. Following the meeting, send-off dinner and worked with was also by its mere location witness to lunch will be on your own at the casino the Oklahoma Chapter to distribute all detachments that went by water. buffet. The public is invited to the Butrick journals to each Remember October and November events. NORTH CAROLINA continued on next page

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NORTH CAROLINA (continued) NORTH CAROLINA (continued) NORTH CAROLINA (continued) the Removal bike rider to read from Andy Denson, who chaired the at 11 a.m. at the Cherokee Tribal during their journey. Committee, gave a detailed interview Community Center in Murphy. with the Smoky Mountain News Immediately after, the membership In June, the North Carolina Chapter regarding the NCTOTA’s work hopes to dedicate the last sign waiting held its summer meeting at the public in the region which appeared to be placed from an earlier grant. library in Robbinsville. Immediately in its July 6 issue: http://www. This sign will mark the Unicoi Turnpike following, the membership dedicated smokymountainnews.com/outdoors/ as it funneled Cherokee deportees a new sign to mark the site of Fort item/17987-remembering-the- to nearby Fort Butler, their last stop Mongtomery on Fort Hill. Several removal-wayside-markers-trace-the- before leaving North Carolina. members then took a short uphill trek trail-of-tears-in-wnc to the nearby actual trail where Brett Brett Riggs and Sue Abram met with GEORGIA Riggs and TJ discussed the Removal Elizabeth Sims in July to discuss the from the area. Blue Ridge National BRNHA’s project and how it applies The Georgia Trail of Tears Association had Heritage Area (BRNHA) director, to grassroots initiatives in mountain a chapter board meeting on Saturday, Angie Chandler, was our special guest communities. She wants to first August 13 at the conference center to and participated in the dedication. focus on the Cherokee in the area, visualize it all one last time. Tom Belt gave a moving talk which particularly their culture, foodways, personalized the Removal for us. and arts. We were happy to share Jeff Stancil volunteered to talk about the information regarding some of the road from New Echota to the Vann House The BRNHA’s matching grant of community partnerships that we have along Hwy 225 - He’s excited to place $5,000 to the Chapter allowed us to forged. the sign there since he worked there all develop our new website at http:// those years. www.nctrailoftears.org/ and to print Anne Rogers, NCTOTA National a map/brochure with the designing Director, recently hosted Chapter Carol Clark has been working on assistance of the National Park Service. member John Wible and Treasurer a brochure to celebrate the 100th This map is now being distributed Anita Finger Smith, for a tour through anniversary of the NPS in Georgia. We throughout Western North Carolina. the WCU Archaeology Lab. A fairly have collaborated on a driving tour If you need any for your Chapter, new member, John has proven down Highway 27 from Chickamauga/ individual members, or upcoming insatiable in his quest to learn more Chattanooga Battlefield down to events, we will gladly provide these. about the Cherokees in western North Cedartown. This drive is significant since Contact Andy Denson at Denson@ Carolina! we have several sights along this route. wcu.edu for further info. We will We had planned on two tours that would also bring some to the National The NCTOTA’s fall meeting will take highlight this route, but wasn’t meant Conference in Dalton. place on Saturday, September 17 to be. Hopefully the brochure will be available by the conference, at least Carol has it planned to be. Bless her!

The second route is up Hwy 225 from New Echota to Chief Joe Vann and across to Old Hwy 411/Tennessee Road/Sally Hughes Route. The old 411 corridor is significant as the route used for trade from Georgia to Cleveland Tennessee. George Harlan’s home (aka Carter’s Quarters), the removal Fort Gilmer, Judge ’s homesite, and then on to George Washington Adair’s home - aka Rockdale Plantation.

A person could spend two weeks just

Photo courtesy of Sue Abram touring the sites the Georgia Trail of Tears Dr. Andrew Denson discussing Qualla resistance to Removal at Association has certified in the last six wayside sign outside the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. years!

8 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • September 2016 21st Annual Trail of Tears Association Please fill out Conference & Symposium both sides and October 3 – 5, 2016 Sign on the next Northwest Georgia Trade & Convention Center page. REGISTRATION FORM (One form per Registrant Please) Contact Information

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9 Trail of Tears Trail of Tears National Park Service National Historic Trail Association National Trails Intermountain Region, Santa Fe

Trail News is produced by the The Trail of Tears Association has entered The National Trails Intermountain Region partnership of the Trail of Tears Association into a cooperative agreement with administers the Trail of Tears NHT, the and the National Park Service, National the National Park Service to promote Santa Fe NHT, El Camino Real de los Trails Intermountain Region, Santa Fe. and engage in the protection and Tejas NHT, and the Route 66 Corridor preservation of the Trail of Tears NHT Preservation Program. El Camino Real de Editor resources; to promote awareness of the Tierra Adentro NHT and Old Spanish NHT Troy Wayne Poteete trail’s legacy, including the effects of are administered jointly by the National the U.S. Government’s Indian Removal Trails Intermountain Region and the New Contributors Policy on the Cherokee and other tribes; Mexico State Office of the Bureau of Land Patsy Edgar, Heather Carey, Marybelle and to perpetuate the management Management. These trail and corridor Chase, Tony Harris, John McLarty, Deloris and development techniques that are programs are administered in partnership Gray Wood, Sue Abram, Alice Murphee, consistent with the NPS’s trail plan. with American Indian tribes; federal, state, Linda Cox, and TOTA state chapters. and local agencies; nongovernment Trail of Tears Association organizations; and private landowners. Comments/Address Changes? 412 N. Hwy 100, Suite B Contact: Troy Wayne Poteete P.O. Box 329 National Trails Intermountain Region Trail of Tears Association PO Box 728 412 N. Hwy 100, Suite B Webbers Falls, OK 74470 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 P.O. Box 329 Webbers Falls , OK 74470 918-464-2258 [email protected] 505-988-6098 [email protected] www.nps.gov/trte [email protected] www.NationalTOTA.com

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LaQ uin ta In n & Suite s Call: 1-866-527-1498 for reservations 715 C olleg e Driv e Ask for Trail of Tears group rate Dalto n, G A 30720 Guest rooms are $89.00 plus tax Questions? Contact Roy Barnes at [email protected] or (918-464-2258) or Troy Poteete at [email protected]

10 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News • September 2016 Vision Becoming Reality Using Partnerships to Develop TOTA State Chapter the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Contacts

In 1987, Congress acknowledged the James Brown Cherokee Plantation, TN Alabama significance of this tragic event in our Nation’s Jentel Farm Trail Segment, IL Shannon Keith history by establishing the Trail of Tears John Martin House, TN Phone: 205-301-0704 National Historic Trail. The National Park Service John Ross House, GA Email: [email protected] administers the Trail in cooperation with Memorial and Museum, NC federal, state, and local agencies; the Cherokee Lake Dardanelle State Park, AR Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee La Petite Roche, AR Arkansas Indians; interested groups; and Laughlin Park, MO John McLarty private landowners. Mantle Rock, KY Phone: 479-530-6458 Maramec Spring Park/Massey Iron Works, MO The Trail of Tears Association and the National Email: [email protected] McGinnis Cemetery Trail Segment, IL Park Service National Trails Intermountain Mount Nebo State Park, AR Regin, Santa Fe have been working with trail Murrell Home, OK Georgia partners to increase visibility for the trail and Museum of the Cherokee Indian, NC to develop it for visitor use. Old traces, historic Leslie Thomas New Echota State Historic Site, GA buildings, and other resources are being Phone: 770-757-0931 preserved. Many sites have been certified and Paducah Waterfront, KY Email: [email protected] numerous on-the-ground projects have been Petit Jean State Park, AR completed, such as route signing, visitor-use Pinnacle Mountain State Park, AR development, interpretive wayside exhibits, Port Royal State Park, TN Illinois and interior museum exhibits at existing Radford Farm, KY Sandy Boaz facilities. Red Clay State Historic Area, TN Phone: 618-833-8216 Rockdale Plantation/George Adair Home, GA Email: [email protected] Certified Sites Running Waters, John Ridge Home, GA Andrew Ross House, AL Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, TN Arcadia Valley Campground, MO Snelson-Brinker Cabin, MO Kentucky Audubon Acres, TN Star City Ranch Trail Segment, MO Alice Murphree Berry’s Ferry and John Berry Homesite, KY Tennessee River Museum, TN Phone: 270-886-5375 Big Spring, KY Toler Farm Trail Segment, IL Email: [email protected] Cemetery, TN Trail of Tears Commemorative Park, KY Browns Ferry Tavern, TN Trail of Tears State Park, MO Campground Cemetery, IL Trail of Tears State Forest, IL Missouri Cedartown Camp, GA Tuscumbia Landing, AL Deloris Gray Wood Chattanooga Regional History Museum,TN Vann Cherokee Cabin, GA Phone: 573-729-2545 Cherokee County Historical Museum, NC Vann House Historic Site, GA Email: [email protected] Cherokee Garden at Green Meadows, GA Village Creek State Park, AR , OK Wagner Farm Trail Segment, IL / Home, GA Wayside Store and Bridges Tavern Site, IL North Carolina City of North Little Rock Riverfront Park, AR Waterloo Landing, AL Susan M. Abram, Ph.D. Columbus-Belmont State Park, KY Willstown Mission Cemetery, AL Phone: 828-227-2735 Crabb-Abbot Farm, IL Email: [email protected] Crider Tavern Complex, KY David Crockett State Park Trail Segment, TN Federal Protection Components and Delta Cultural Center, AR Interpretive Sites Oklahoma Fitzgerald Station and Farmstead, AR Arkansas Post National Memorial, AR Curtis Rohr Fort Gibson, OK Cadron Settlement Park, AR Phone: 918-341-4689 Cherokee Memorial Park, , TN Fort Payne Cabin Site, AL Email: [email protected] Funk Heritage Center, GA Fort Smith National Historic Site, AR Giles Co. Trail of Tears Interpretive Center, TN Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN Green County Trail Segments, MO Mark Twain National Forest, MO Tennessee Golconda Riverfront, IL Mocassin Bend, TN Lee Trevino Gray’s Inn, KY Pea Ridge National Military Park, AR Email: [email protected] , TN Shawnee National Forest, MO The Hermitage, TN Stones River National Battlefield, TN Historic Road from Ross to Ridge’s, GA Hiwassee River Heritage Center, TN

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The Trail of Tears Association would like to thank the following for their generous upgraded membership support:

Benefactors $1000+ Proctor and Gamble Choctaw Nation Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation WALMART Cherokee Indians

Patrons $500 – $999 Ms. Carolyn Nohria - $525 Mr. John Wible, Jr. - $500 NW Georgia Community Found. - $500 Ms. Dorothy Horner - $535 Vulcan Materials Company - $500 Wanda Patterson - $500

Sponsors $100 - $499 Mr. Andrew Denson - $300 Ms. Mary Wachacha - $125 Mr. Charles Baugh - $100 Mrs. Lucie Atkerson - $250 Chattanooga Area CVB - $120 Mr. Dick Bass - $100 Ms. Rowena McClinton, Ph.D. - $250 Ms. Diane Parrish - $120 Cheryl Cook - $100 Mrs. Sarah Hill, Ph.D. - $230 Ms. Cara Cowan-Watts - $110 Ms. Rose Stremlau - $100 Mr. Glenn Jones - $200 Mr. R. Wesley Harris - $110 Ms. Mary Ellen Meredith - $100 Mr. Lawrence Simmons - $180 Ms. Debra Eskie - $100 Ms. Patsy Hanvey - $100 Mrs. Diana Threadgill - $175 Mr. Don Kinney - $100 Mrs. Tammy Marlin - $100 Dr. Donna Haley - $150 Mr. Ronald Black - $100 Joan Revell - $100 Mr. Gary Payne - $150 Mr. Wayne Lee - $100 Franklin Dumond - $100 Kent. Mississippi River Pkwy Commission - $150 Mr. Donald Coleman - $100 John Wibble - $100 Ms. Barbara Miller - $130 Mr. Richard Starbuck - $100 Randy Beckler - $100 Mr. H. Riley Bock - $125 Mrs. Susan Starbuck - $100 Myra Reidy - $100 Mrs. Bobbie Heffington - $125 Mr. Jay Hannah - $100 Connie Tibbitts - $100

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