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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2001

"As a native Southerner who's been dismayed and disgusted by the way folks like me have been portrayed in movies and on TV, I can imagine how Diamond Brown felt when he was growing up.

His people, he told me this week, were caricatured even in the textbooks he was given to study in school.

Brown is a Cherokee whose life's work is educating kids about what that means --- and, just as important, what it doesn't.

Today and Wednesday in Snellville, where Brown lives, he and other native people will enlighten upward of 3,000 children visiting T.W. Briscoe Park. . ."

Get the Story:
Cherokee teaches kids to appreciate native cultures (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 10/23)