Our Voices Remain is a free speaker series exploring Indigenous perspectives along our National Trails. Explore past Our Voices Remain events below.
Our Voices Remain: Indigenous Perspectives Along the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
A free speaker event hosted in collaboration between the National Park Service’s El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail and the Partnership for the National Trails System.
Amy Heath is a mapmaker and an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. While working as an exhibit specialist at the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel Museum in Austin, Texas in 2020, she was asked to investigate and present an exhibit on the Native American history of the Austin area creating "To Relate: Indigenous Views on Native American Historical Events in Texas," a City of Austin Digital Exhibit website.
Our Voices Remain: Indigenous Perspectives Along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
A free speaker event hosted in collaboration between the National Park Service’s Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Partnership for the National Trails System, and University of Nebraska Omaha Native American Studies and History Department.
Mark Charles discussed the need for more indigenous voices in the telling of U.S. History through a discussion on the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and where the nation stands today since the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Our Voices Remain: Indigenous Perspectives Along the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
A free speaker event hosted in collaboration between the National Park Service’s Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail and the Partnership for the National Trails System
This three part event included:
- Atsila Anotasgi Traditional Song and Dance led by the Museum for the Cherokee People
- Cherokee Stories of Music and Supernatural Creatures led by Kathi Littlejohn, Cherokee Storyteller
- Cherokee 101 led by the Museum for the Cherokee People