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Alan Briggs

Together we survive - lessons of the Cherokee

By Alan Briggs, NOV 22, 2024

ASHEVILLE — “We are still here”, Cherokee elder Nancy Pheasant, told the attentive audience. “Despite media images and years of erasing us and our history, we have survived.”

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