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Delancey Griffin in front of old building

Cherokee doctoral student reinterprets New Echota through indigenous perspectives

For generations, New Echota has been remembered as the place where the Cherokee Nation's story in Georgia came to a tragic end, reflecting a historical narrative shaped largely through Eurocentric perspectives. University of Georgia doctoral student Delancey Paden Griffin believes it's time to tell a fuller story. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a second-year doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of…
photo of shoreline, with grass, tents, and water, day

Climate change threatens archaeological heritage of coastal Georgia

A new study published February 28, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Matthew D. Howland of Wichita State University and Victor D. Thompson of the University of Georgia reports that thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, a number that will increase with climate change. Due to rising sea level and increasingly severe tropical storms, human-caused climate change poses a…
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