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We Neighbors Would Meet Together: Oothcaloga Moravian Mission, Integration, and Cherokee Identity

Funk Heritage Center 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska

The Funk Heritage Center opens a new temporary exhibit, We Neighbors Would Meet Together, interpreting the history and influence of the Oothcaloga Moravian Mission (near present-day Calhoun) on Cherokee integration, nationalism, and sovereignty in the nineteenth century. The exhibit is also designed to raise public awareness and generate support for the Oothcaloga Mission God’s Acre […]

Spring Place & Oochgeelogy: Moravian Missions Among the Cherokee

Funk Heritage Center 7300 Reinhardt College Cir, Waleska

Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the Moravians, the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation. The lecture will focus on the origins and development of Moravian missionary activity in the Cherokee Nation, highlighting the patterns of cross-cultural exchange […]

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