Brett Riggs is an archaeologist with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His specialty is Cherokee studies, and for the past twenty years he's worked in southwestern North Carolina to shed light on the lives of Cherokee families during the removal era of the 1830s.
Dr. Riggs is co-author of the "Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook," part of the North Carolina Arts Council's Blue Ridge Heritage Initiative, which garnered the first Preserve America Presidential Award for Heritage Tourism in 2004.
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