Cherokee – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Matthew Tooni

Matthew Tooni grew up on the Qualla Boundary, the tribal lands of the Eastern Band...

The Raven Rock Dancers were founded by Cherokee elder Walker Calhoun, a widely admired tradition...

Bernice Calhoun Bottchenbaugh has spent many years preserving and sharing Cherokee cultural traditions, just as...

Eva Wolfe was an accomplished weaver of rivercane baskets, a traditional type of Cherokee basketry....

Emma Taylor was widely recognized as an especially gifted and productive basket maker in the...

"I was about six or seven when I started doing pottery," Louise Bigmeat Maney said....

Cherokee tribal elder Goingback Chiltosky was a master woodcarver who influenced several generations of carvers....

Like many traditional artists, Cherokee carver Amanda Crowe first learned her craft by watching others....

Cherokee tribal elder Robert Henry Bushyhead called his native Kituhwa dialect a gift of the...

John Grant, Jr., comes from a family of accomplished traditional artists. His own interest in...

Chuck and Peggy Patrick, natives of Blairsville, Georgia, grew up learning traditional mountain music and...

Cherokee artist Robert Queen practices traditional forms of woodcarving that were handed down to him...