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Episode 11: Erin Whitson
As we continue to “honor the past to heal the present and dream the future” in Season Two of our mini-documentary series, we head to 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 encamped during the forced removal of Native people from the Southeastern United States. Episode 11 introduces Archaeologist Erin Whitson, the first in her field to focus on finding and interpreting historic encampment sites along the Trail of Tears to learn what the experience was like for people walking the path westward.
A film directed by Gabriel Hunter Sheets, Director of Photography Jesse Bader, filmed on location in Crawford County, Missouri. Presented by Ozark Vitality, in partnership with the Steelville Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee. Major funding provided by Missouri Humanities.
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