Media release from Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home:
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home, in partnership with The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will continue the Fall Lecture Series with Dr. Emily Legg on November 7th beginning at 7pm in McAllister Hall Auditorium located at Berry College.
Presented by Dr. Emily Legg, “Learned Women: Sophia Sawyer, the Fayetteville Female Seminary, and Female Education in Early Arkansas” tells the story Sophia Sawyer, a missionary teacher to the Cherokee and the founder of the Fayetteville Female Seminary in Arkansas.
Emily Legg is a Cherokee Nation citizen and an Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Miami University in Ohio. Her research centers Indigenous methodologies of storytelling as a decolonial and materialist research practices in writing and rhetoric, and she brings these methodologies to her historiographic recovery work as well as her teaching and research in Professional Writing, and Digital Rhetorics.
This presentation is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Berry College, and The Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia.
For more information about the event or the museum, visit www.chieftainsmuseum.org or call (762) 327-6124.
