An Arkansas road sign in English and Cherokee.
Emily Beahm of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey will present “Old Cherokee Settlers in the Arkansas River Valley: Internal Relations and External Institutions” at the July meeting of the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archaeological Society.
This talk will take place on Tuesday, July 2 at 7 pm in the board room of the Arkansas School of Mathematics, Science and the Arts, 200 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. The event is free and open to the public.
In the first quarter of the 19th century, the central Arkansas River Valley was home to thousands of Cherokee (“Old Settlers”) who had moved from their traditional homeland in the Appalachians to escape violence and encroachment by settlers. Euro-Americans. While violence with Euro-Americans was less of a problem west of the Mississippi River, early Cherokee settlers were regularly in conflict with neighboring Osages to the north and west. They were also impacted by two Euro-American institutions, both aimed at stripping native peoples of traditional culture: the Factory System and the Missionary System.
This presentation presents ongoing research on the communities of early Cherokee settlers that existed in the central Arkansas River Valley between the 1790s and 1820s and how the Spadra Factory and Dwight Mission impacted members of these communities.
Emily Beahm
Beahm is an archaeologist at the University of Arkansas-Arkansas Archaeological Studies Station at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. His research focuses on indigenous plant use and foodways, gender, rock art and 3D modeling. He has created print and web-based educational materials focused on these topics. Although her participation in the NSF-funded research project “Evidence-Based Transformation of Undergraduate Field Schools to Promote Safety and Inclusion Among Southeastern Archeology” and other activities, she works to identify and implement ways to make discipline of archeology is representative, safe and accessible. for all students.
The Arkansas Archaeological Survey research station at Henderson State University, 1042 Haddock St., Arkadelphia, holds regular Archeology Lab Days on Thursdays. Students and members of the public are invited to visit the research station on Thursdays between 9 am and 4:30 pm to learn more about archeology in Arkansas. For more information, contact Mary Beth Trubitt at 870-230-5510.
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