Our celebration takes place in the ancestral dwelling of the tribe Anikituwagi, more commonly known as the Cherokee.

This land was known to them as Togiyasdi, "Where They Race," and was part of the Cherokee Nation, Tsalagi Ayeli, which covered as many as 108,000 square miles of the American Southeast as late as 1730 and consisted of sixty or more towns.

We recognize the Anikituwagi as the native people and original stewards of our home, which we call Asheville, North Carolina.

Museum of the Cherokee People

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