Researchers hope to catalog it all and bring back what they learn to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
CHICAGO â A team of researchers from Oklahoma has been in Chicago all week at the Newberry Library on the near North Side on a mission to rediscover old stories about the Cherokee Nation.A week in Chicago is a blur for researchers buried in boxes inside the Newberry Library. 'I have looked at so much. My brain is hurting.''I am just now in my second box. I think,' said Missy Earl.Missy Earl and her team didn't come all this way to sightsee.
It's the story of my people,' Mark Harrison, Cherokee Freedman. The Cherokee Nation is funding their weeklong mission to rediscover history. The collection includes detailed notes, letters, photographs, and transcripts, some over 100 years old.'This is from 1866. This was the Cherokee delegation to Washington,' Earl said. 'I don't want to go home just yet. This is the good stuff. We're getting to the good stuff,' Harrison said.
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