Tag: Cherokees

The Cherokees, Sequoyah and the Trail of Tears

One of Chad Berry’s early slides during his Feb. 8 talk on Appalachia and its people acknowledged that Berea College, like East Tennessee, is located on lands originally occupied by what is now the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and two other large Native American tribes: the Shawnee and the Yuchi. The Berea College […]