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Red Clay Visitor's Center and Museum
Stalking the Secretive Slimey SalamanderCherokee Council Sleeping Huts
Sleeping huts such as these, without windows, doors, or chinking, were used to house many delegates and visitors to the Councils. An Englishman who attended three of the gatherings, George W. Featherstonhaugh, gave this account of the Council of October, 1837:
"The most impressive feature, and that which imparted life to the whole, was an increasing current of Cherokee Indians, men, women, and children, moving about in every direction, and in the greatest order; and all except the younger ones preserving a grave and thoughtful demeanor, imposed upon them by the singular position in which they were placed, and by the trying alternative now presented to them of delivering up their native country to their oppressors, or perishing in vain resistance."
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