A Trip to Cherokee, North Carolina

Elk on the way to Cherokee, North Carolina

Just the guys - Elk on the way to Cherokee, NC

Closer look at the guys - Elk on the way to Cherokee, NC

Fixing a gaze - Elk on the way to Cherokee, NC

Bamboo grove

Bamboo grove

Bamboo grove

Ducks moving with the flow

Nests among the brush

tree circle blue

Archaic Period fishing

Woodland Period -- feather cloak

Mississippian Era - Native American ceremony

Mural

Mural

Paleo Period Arrow heads

Cherokee as The Fire People

Cherokee philosophy

Mural

Colonial Period - Soldiers forcing Cherokee families out of their homes.

Colonial Period - tiny scene of corralled Cherokee before their forced resettlement

Colonial Period - The end of the Trail and Reaching the new "home." This part of the exhibit was so poignant for me. The man's face and countenance show such extreme trauma and grief and compliance.

Colonial Period - Along the Trail of Tears

Colonial Period - Mural of the Trail of Tears

Colonial Period - Along the Trail of Tears

Colonial Period - Choctaws - one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

Colonial Period - Cherokee - one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

Colonial Period - Chickasaw - one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

Colonial Period - Creeks - one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

Colonial Period - Seminoles - one of the 5 Civilized Tribes

Colonial Period

Colonial Period - British lithograph of Ostenaco, Stalking Turkey, The Pigeon, and two other accompanying Cherokees

Map of Cherokee territory circa 1650

Colonial Period - Seqyuoyah

Cherokee Phoenix and Indian Advocate Newspaper with Cherokee syllabary

Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah

Searching

Strutting along

Farmhouse - front

Farmhouse - back

Farmhouse - side, chimney

Farmhouse front porch bench

Farmhouse living area

Farmhouse kitchen area

Farmhouse organ

Farmhouse dining table

Farmhouse barn

Fence line

Farmhouse buggy

Plow

Blacksmith

Farmhouse wagon 1

Farmhouse wagon 2