Friday, November 22, 2024

Native American Heritage Month 2024

Currently on display in the library are Native American / Indigenous Peoples books to help celebrate Native American Heritage Month.


A Native American guide was created to provide information and links about Native American sites, land acknowledgement, Libby online books, food books, and print books, music playlist, and tribal nation information. And a link to the Red Clay State Historical Park Guide. Read the guide at https://library.chattanoogastate.edu/nativeamerica

Did you know that Clingmans Dome was changed to Kuwohi (koo-WHOA-hee) at the request of the Eastern Band of Cherokees? Kuwohi is a sacred place for the Cherokee people and is the highest point within the traditional Cherokee homeland. Find the press release link in the guide.

Did you know that when TVA surveyed the land around the Tennessee River that would become covered by the waters of Chickamauga Lake, the agency sent out professional teams to document Native American villages?  Among the documentation were burial mounds.  One mound, the "Hixon Mound," was located south of present day Dallas Bay. The "Hixon Mound" is now inundated by the Lake.

Did you know that Chattanooga's Moccasin Bend area has ancestral ties to 23 Native American tribes?

Did you know that in nearby Bradley County, and just a few miles from Apison, the Red Clay State Historic Park was the last seat of Cherokee national government before the U.S. military's 1838 enforcement of the Indian Removal Act of 1830? Eleven general councils were held between 1832 and 1837. Red Clay is where the forced emigration of the Trail of Tears began.

Council Springs, Red Clay

Council Meetings, Red Clay

The Eternal Flame, Red Clay






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