In honor of the 180th Anniversary of the Trail of Tears, Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home and Berry College is co-sponsoring the lecture, “If Plants Could Talk: A Cherokee Relationship.""
Cherokee Nation citizen Tony Harris will give the lecture at 7 p.m. April 3 in the Berry College McAllister Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
Harris, born and raised in Muskogee, Okla., graduated from Northeastern State University, originally the Cherokee University located in Tahlequah, Okla. He is a member of the Georgia Native Plant Society, Cobb County Master Gardeners and serves as the President of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. He was one of two keynote speakers at the 2012 National Cherokee Ethnobotany Conference. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Conservation Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Harris also maintains an educational website at mycherokeegarden.com.
The presentation on Cherokee ethnobotany is co-sponsored by Chieftains along with the Berry Environmental Studies program and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology as part of the Chieftains Lecture Series at Berry College.
For more information about the event or the museum, visit www.chieftainsmuseum.org or call 706.291.9494.
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