The Knoxville Loop

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Frank H. McClung Museum
An easy forty-five minute drive northeast from Vonore brings visitors to the regional center of Knoxville, where the Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee campus features a permanent exhibition: Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee.

This state of the art, comprehensive exhibition showcases sixty-five years of archaeological research by the University of Tennessee and presents a detailed chronicle of native life in Tennessee from the end of the Ice Age to modern times.

While touring the McClung Museum:

• Examine dramatic, life sized murals by muralist Greg Harlin depicting native life during the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian and historic era Cherokee culture periods
• See exhibits which combine artifact, images and text to examine the changing lifeways of native peoples
• Tour multi-tiered exhibit spaces with ramps and platforms defining different themes
• Explore a scale model of the six hundred year old village of Touqua with a fiber optic key
• Learn more about archaeology through five hands-on interactive exhibits
• Explore the gift and bookshop which included printed materials on the Cherokee and other southeastern tribes along with crafts by Eastern Band artisans

A small but well-designed portion of the exhibit deals with historic era of Cherokee life in eastern Tennessee. Text, contemporary graphics, maps and artifacts combine to illustrate the Cherokee experience in the eastern Tennessee Valley during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A mini-theater features a fifteen-minute video presentation that addresses the complex issues and events of Euro-American settlement and the response of the native people. The video and other display components emphasize the continuing vitality of native life in the faces of centuries of adversity.

Frank H. McClung Museum
1327 Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
(865) 974-2144 www.mcclungmuseum.utk

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Treaty of Holston Park
While in Knoxville, visit the Treaty of Holston Park on the newly developed Knoxville riverfront on the Tennessee River; a place the Cherokees once knew as Kuwanda ta lun yi, “the Mulberry Grove.” Here, a new statue commemorates the 1791 signing of the Treaty of Holston between the Cherokee Nation and the United States government, an agreement that laid the foundation for relations between the Cherokees and the new federal government. This landmark treaty established the “civilization” program, and early federal policy for pacifying hostile tribes by encouraging farming and settled life.

The park features a plaza surrounding a massive marble statue that depicts the signing of the treaty. Included in the statue are signers Hanging Maw, the Cherokee principle chief and William Blount, governor of the territory south of the Ohio River. The varied poses and attitudes of the Cherokee participation reflect the range of sentiment about the treaty.

Treaty of Holston Park
Public Affairs Office, City-County Building
Knoxville, TN 37901
(865) 215-2065
www.ci.knoxville.tn.us

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