Turtle Talk

Here is the website and here is the postcard (Emissaries of Peace Symposium Invite2).

Saturday, July 11, 2009

8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tom Gilcrease, Jr. Auditorium

Gilcrease Museum

1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Speaker Biographies

Jack D. Baker, president of the Trail of Tears Association and a Cherokee Nation Tribal Council member, will speak on the British view of Cherokee society during the 18th century.

Barbara Duncan, Ph.D., Museum of the Cherokee Indian education director, will present on the acculturation and adaptation in Cherokee and British societies in 1762.

Robert Griffing, historical artist, will give a presentation entitled “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Woodland Indian.”

Duane H. King, Ph.D., Gilcrease Museum executive director, will discuss the Cherokee view of British society in 1762.

Jonathan C.H. King, Ph. D. is the keeper and manager of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas with the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, and will present “Cheering Cherokees: Performing Diplomacy for 18th Century Visitors.”

John Martin Robinson, Ph.D., a British architectural historian and officer of arms, will present a talk regarding Wilton House and the surrounding area as seen by the Cherokee delegation in 1762.

Chad Smith, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, will open the symposium with remarks.