The Ridge Family and Removal

Episode 35 is available for download.
(55 minutes, 15.4 MB, MP3)

Dr. Alice Taylor-Colbert, chair of the Department of History, Geography, and Political Science at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, recounts the story of John Ridge, a leader of the Cherokee minority faction who signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, trading tribal lands east of the Mississippi River for land in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Dr. Taylor-Colbert's talk was part of the Cherokee Footsteps in Northwest Arkansas Symposium held at the Shiloh Museum in October 2007.