American Indian trails once wove throughout the North American landscape, following the contours of the land to connect communities and provide trade routes across the continent. While remnants of these ancient trails still exist throughout the Southeast, a cultural amnesia of sorts has taken place within today’s culture and landscape, a forgetting of the past because of modern development and life.
However, this historical trail network is being identified throughout the Southeast with a comprehensive mapping project known as the Trails of the Middle, Valley and Out Town Cherokee Settlements. With guidance provided by the Tribal Heritage Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the nonprofit organization Wild South and its partners have mapped more than 1,000 miles of Cherokee trails that existed prior to the mid-1800s in eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Great idea.. to reconnect to the past as well!