‘Trail of Tears’ Revisited on Oct. 13

10/05/2015 

The “Trail of Tears” was a tragic chapter in the country’s history: the forcible removal of Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw people from their homelands in the southeast to Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi.

Most Americans think the horrific march happened only once.

But that history is incomplete, according to Sierra Adare-TasiwooPa api.

A Cherokee and Choctaw, she will share her knowledge, both through scholarly research and family reflection, of four such separations, motivated both by politics and force, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at SUNY Cortland.

Adare-TasiwooPa api, who coordinates faculty development at Trocaire College in Buffalo, N.Y., will present “The Four Trails of Tears” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Corey Union, Room 204-208.

Sponsored by the English Department and the Campus Artist and Lecture Series, the talk is free and open to the public.

Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi has focused her research on stereotyping throughout American history. Her work on the subject of children’s books and their impact on the cultural development of children has been published over the past several decades.

She is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, a pan-indigenous association seeking to ensure that the voices of indigenous and Hispanic peoples in the Americas are heard throughout the world.

 Adare-TasiwooPa api also teaches at Niagara University and is completing a doctorate in American studies at the University at Buffalo. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Empire State College and a Master of Arts in Indigenous Nations Studies from the University of Kansas.

Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi has conducted research for an education film for Educational Fundamentals, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit. She has received a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship and a grant from the Mark Diamond Research Fund to support her doctoral work.

For more information, contact Linda Rosekrans, lecturer in English, at 607-423-4886.