Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12pm to 1pm
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Dr. Gregory Smithers, professor of history at VCU and British Academy Global Professor, based at the University of Hull in England, will present a talk entitled "A Watershed People: The Cherokees & the Kinship of Rivers". In Cherokee culture, water is medicine. Water is spiritual. Water – ama – is sacred. Centuries before European invasion and the TVA’s damming of Southern Appalachia’s waterways, rivers nourished Cherokee crops, cleansed Cherokee bodies, and purified Cherokee souls. Join Dr. Smithers as he takes us on a journey back in time, and through the whirlpools, rapids, and streams that helped Cherokees both navigate and give meaning to their world.
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