Archeologists and Cherokee scholars have interpreted for the first time tribal inscriptions in north Alabama’s Manitou Cave that include evidence of ceremonies held in the cave at the time of the Trail of Tears.
The writings are ceremonial and spiritual, and some were addressed to the “Old Ones,” as the Cherokee called their forebears. They include evidence of a signature by Richard Guess, a son of the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah who created the tribe’s written language. The study is published in the April issue of the international archaeological journal “Antiquity.”
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