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Swain Hall

UNC Chapel Hill

November 2015

“And So We Walked” Performance by DeLanna Studi

November 13, 2015 @ 8:00 pm - November 14, 2015 @ 10:00 pm
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In this performance with the Process Series, Cherokee actor and writer DeLanna Studi explores the enduring impact of the Trail of Tears on contemporary communities using research, interviews, and her own family’s experience. Along with her father and a documentarian, Studi retraced the steps of her ancestors from their homestead in Murphy, North Carolina to their present home near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears may be a defining moment of Cherokee history, but does it define us as a…

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The Southern Oral History Program in the Center for the Study of the American South conducts original research on the history and culture of the American South. Since 1974, we have collected more than 5,000 interviews with southerners from all walks of life, from politicians to activists, business owners to millworkers, educators to artists. These interviews make up a rich record of life in the American South in the voices of those who experienced it.