TOPIC AND RESEARCH
QUESTION
TOPIC: Living here in Western North Carolina it would be crazy if I chose any topic other the Cherokee Indians that live here. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are 14000 strong on the Qualia Boundary today after their ancestors chose to stay by any means here and emerged as a nation of around 1000. I want to find out so many things about how they were able to stay here that I have had a little trouble narrowing down a research question. I was invited by one of the former World Wrestling Federations Tag Team Champions Ric Youngblood who is a member of the Eastern Band to the museum where I will access to their archives for anything that I need for this project. I was so honored by the invitation. My only concern is that I may have to much information available that I become overwhelmed, and my project suffers. I would love your feedback and maybe a nudge in the right direction here.
RESEARCH QUESTION: What was it like for the Cherokee who escaped the Trail of Tears and stayed here in Western North Carolina, and how where they able to keep the land that they still live on today?
Preliminary Writing Plan
For my historical event analysis, I have chosen to see what I can learn about the Cherokee Indians who escaped the Trail of Tears by taking refuge in the mountains of Western North Carolina where they called home before the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and still remain today. I have been across the Blue Ridge Parkway, and have experienced the morning dew falling
in the Great Smoky Mountains, the beauty of the scenery is like no other and I swear if you listen
close enough you can hear God whisper in every breeze, so I know what the Cherokee saw in this land and I understand their refusal to relocate. I want to focus on the Cherokee Indians whose bloodline now make up the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. There are so many significant events that occurred during this time but the perseverance of the refugee Cherokee
