Cherokee reunion celebrates heritage
Atop a grassy hill beneath a crystal blue sky, 12 Cherokee warriors in battle regalia chanted, waved tomahawks and gyrated rhythmically, performing the very war dance their ancestors did in the 1700s. A crowd of Cherokee Indians, who had journeyed Thursday to Red Clay State Historic Park from Oklahoma, North Carolina and elsewhere, stood transfixed, as though transported to another time — when their ancestors' lands covered much of the Southeast.
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