National Geographic Creativeのインスタグラム(natgeointhefield) - 10月3日 08時21分

Photo by @sarah_stacke / On a quiet morning I drove 45 minutes from my hotel to an unassuming field alongside the Tennessee River. Thirteen years ago, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) purchased this 70-acre site because it’s home to the historic Cowee Mound and village, thought to date from about 600 A.D. The council house of the Cherokee town of Cowee was located on the mound in the 18th century, when the town served as an important commercial center. In the 1840s, shortly after an estimated 17,000 Cherokee were forced off their homeland by the U.S. government and onto the Trail of Tears, the Halls, a white family, acquired the property. The land remained in the Hall family for 175 years until they returned ownership of it to the Cherokee. The lines covering the mound, in the right of the frame, are likely made from deer walking through the tall grass. Cowee, in fact, roughly translates to “the place of the Deer clan.”

In the Great Smoky Mountains, the EBCI is reclaiming culturally and historically important lands lost during colonization.

I’m in this photo. Can you find me?!

#landback #ebcihomelands #cowee #drone

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