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Surviving ‘despair in its thickest blackness’: Archaeological approaches to visualizing Cherokee Removal (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1889, Wahnenauhi (Lucy Keys), a survivor of the infamous “Trail of Tears”, wrote, that “despair in its thickest blackness” settled down on the Chiefs of the Cherokee as they prepared their people to relocate from their traditional homelands to “Indian Territory” in 1838. Her words are compelling—both for how intimate they feel and for the imagery they...