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Preserving the Culture: Trail of Tears
Thomas Jefferson The writing was on the wall! By the early 1800’s, even Thomas Jefferson, who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the...
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Preserving the Culture: Iroquois Great Law of Peace
Iroquois Confederacy Constitution Wampum Belt In 1451, according to many scholars, a solar eclipse marked the founding of the confederacy...
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Preserving the Culture: Andrew Jackson
The year 1828 was a major turning point for the Cherokee people and the preservation of Cherokee culture. It was the year that Andrew...
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Preserving the Culture: Elias Boudinot
In the early 1970’s, Dr. Jacob Bronowski defined the “Ascent of Man” and the levels of human development. He recognized that the...
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Preserving the Culture: George Washington
As the fever of independence was growing amongst the colonists of North America, so was the fever of expansion. In the late eighteenth...
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Preserving the Culture: Adair vs Priber
Over the centuries, since the Cherokee people’s first contact with Europeans, there have been many attempts to preserve the pre-Columbian...