Chair keep,orical maps, storytelling, and pictures to explore my friday of people identify with the Cherokee Nation. Mr. Smithers according to the u. S. Census, nearly one million americans self identify as cherokee. Wherever someone travels in the united states, they will likely someone in their family tree who identifies as cherokee. Trouble as far as scotland, australia, and someone will claim to have cherokee for ers. Ers forbear Gregory Smithers reveals for the first time the diaspora of the cherokee people. He takes readers back to the 18th and 19th century to recover the importance of migration, land, choosing, and culture and language into defining what it means to be cherokee while living in diaspora. The story is a remarkable one, filled with bravery, innovation, and resilience. Gregory smithers is associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university. His research and writing focuses on history of native americans and African American people since the 18th centu
That everybody else has and to be told he cant have that . John demos repressor emeritus at the university is next on booktv. He recounts the creation of the school by a group of protestant ministers in the 19th century whose goal was to evangelize and educate students throughout the world namely native americans and Pacific Islanders and then send them back to their respective communities as missionaries. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the chance to talk to you tonight about this new book of mine. Its actually published only a week ago and to me this feels like a little like a kickoff of whats going to be actually a number of talks i will be doing here and there. This is the first one and a chance to try it out on all of you. I hope to be doing it later on as well but i will find out what works and what doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has two or three different parts. I will start by s