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National park wants to tell the stories of Black, enslaved people in the Great Smokies that are lost in history


National park wants to tell the stories of Black, enslaved people in the Great Smokies that are lost in history
Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
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A 32-year-old man died in the Oconaluftee River June 27. The river runs behind the Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Great Smoky Mountains National Park drips with the wonders of ecological mysteries and human history.
The nearly 90-year-old park is famous for its research and documentation of plant and animal species from fungi to fireflies, bees to black bears, archaeological digs of Cherokee and other Native American sites, and preservation of white settlers’ homes, churches and mills. ....

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The stories of Black, enslaved people in the Great Smokies are lost in history. The national park wants to tell them.


National park wants to tell the stories of Black, enslaved people in the Great Smokies that are lost in history
Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
© Karen Chávez/KChavez@CitizenTimes.com
A 32-year-old man died in the Oconaluftee River June 27. The river runs behind the Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Great Smoky Mountains National Park drips with the wonders of ecological mysteries and human history.
The nearly 90-year-old park is famous for its research and documentation of plant and animal species from fungi to fireflies, bees to black bears, archaeological digs of Cherokee and other Native American sites, and preservation of white settlers’ homes, churches and mills. ....

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Great Smoky Mountains to address omission of Black people in park history


Great Smoky Mountains National Park drips with the wonders of ecological mysteries and human history.
But while the nearly 90-year-old park is world-famous for its research and documentation of plant and animal species from fungi to fireflies, bees to black bears, archaeological digs of Cherokee and other Native American sites, and preservation of white settlers’ homes, churches and mills, there has been a gaping omission.
Long-missing from the rich palette of the remote Smoky Mountains wilderness is the story of Black Americans, many of whom were forcibly brought to the region as enslaved people.
Researchers at the national park, which spans a half-million acres across the rugged, forested border of eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, are finally aiming to right that wrong through the African American Experience Project. ....

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