Cherokee – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Melissa Ann Maney

Melissa Ann Maney demonstrates traditional pottery making and also teaches hands-on pottery classes to groups...

Ernie Lossiah makes and plays the traditional Cherokee flute. He also carves wood and stone,...

Lucille Lossiah makes double and single weave baskets from white oak, maple, and rivercane. She...

Ramona Lossie demonstrates double-weave rivercane, white oak, and basketmaking. She can also teach hands-on workshops...

Marie Junaluska speaks Cherokee fluently and writes the Sequoyah syllabary. In her presentations, she introduces...

Virgil Ledford carves animal and human figures out of walnut, cherry, buckeye, and cedar, finishing...

Jenean Hornbuckle paints mountain landscapes in oil on canvas. She believes that her ability to...

David Hornbuckle carves masks of the seven clans of the Cherokee. No stranger to the...

General Grant gives lectures and workshops on Cherokee spirituality and medicine, woodcarving, silversmithing, bone and...

Ed and Christina Goings are a young Cherokee couple who demonstrate a variety of Cherokee...

George Goings carves animal figures in wood and stone, using walnut, cherry, buckeye, holly, alabaster,...

Louise Goings makes Cherokee white oak baskets. She begins by searching out a white oak...