Archeologist Erin Whitson has worked for years with members of the Cherokee Nation to identify tools and methods to authenticate sites like Steelville and interpret what they find.
Steelville, a town of 1,500 people in Crawford County, Missouri. Steelville is located along the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears where thousands of Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), and their enslaved people camped during the forced removal of Native people from the southeastern United States.
Erin’s program will be replacing the originally scheduled “Geospatially Rediscovering The Trail Of Tears In Missouri” due to a scheduling conflict.