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With Rose Stremlau, Charles A. Dana Professor of History; Maria Whitehead ’95; Lydia Locklear Canty (Lumbee) and Dr. Wenonah G. Haire (Catawba)
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Join Maria Whitehead ’95 (pictured here), vice president of land for the southeast through the Open Space Institute (OSI), in a discussion with Dr. Wenonah G. Haire (Catawba), executive director of the Catawba Cultural Center, and Lydia Locklear Canty (Lumbee), tribal attorney for the Catawba Nation. The panel will explain how the OSI and Catawba Nation partnered to preserve a 600-acre tract of historical, cultural, and natural significance in Lancaster County, SC. The King’s Bottom Tract will eventually become a South Carolina state park. Protecting this land from commercial development ensures that Catawba potters will continue to access and co-manage an ancestral clay pit that the Catawba regard as a sacred resource. The initiative provides a model for how Davidson College may partner with the Catawba Nation in future land preservation initiatives as part of Dútα Bαhiisere Kus Ráˀhere (We Know Corn Together), the collaboration between the Catawba Nation and Davidson College. The conversation will be facilitated by Prof. Rose Stremlau, Charles A. Dana Professor of History.