Several months back, Foxfire staff members met with Dr. Trey Adcock (Cherokee Nation) and Gilliam Jackson (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) to learn about their work in the Snowbird Community, near Robbinsville, North Carolina.
Read the transcript here.
Gil Jackson (right) during an interview.
The bridge built by the sheriff’s department to help kids get to school.
A view of the playground and ball court outside the school.
Children playing outside.
Dr. Trey Adcock presenting on the project at UNC-Asheville.
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What a wonderful treasure to uncover in our hills. Preserving the first people languages and culture. When I was in college at Kent State we had a department of Critical Languages, which had American indigenous languages and even Lithuanian at that time in the 1970s.
Wonderful example of how the teachers of Snowbird led the way.
And your analysis of community born models is spot on.
The joy in this oral history is wonderful. Hope we can also hear from them more as time goes on. Well done FoxFire!
Thank you for your kind words, and for taking the time to listen! An amazing project for sure.