Yesterday, I reached the Cherokee National Forest. This is the name of the people group who were removed from this region and sent to Oklahoma in the 1830s.
This makes it an appropriate time to publish an article I worked on throughout my time in Smoky Mountain National Park, much of it drawing from a piece I researched and wrote in college. The article is on the relationship, between national parks and Native American removal. This piece is significant to me, ambitious, difficult to write. I worked on it throughout the past 3 weeks.
It’s not the typically positive journal entry, but I think this heavy topic must be discussed. Writing the precursor to this piece when I was in college shifted my perspective significantly – and for the better.
