Cherokee This Week

This week our class is going to visit the Cherokee reservation in Western North Carolina.  I'm excited to see what a successful reservation is actually like.  We have talked so much about the innate poverty that comes with living on a "rez".

Part of me is expecting the Hollywood Indian but I am hoping for something more realistic, something true, something to write a lot about.  I want to see that these are people and not a commodity.  That's what I'm hoping for on this trip.