Exhibits will highlight Cherokee culture

CHEROKEE, N.C. -- A series of exhibits about Cherokee culture is opening in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, highlighting the tribe's traditions and beliefs.

The seven wayside panels along the Oconaluftee River Trail will have information in both English and Cherokee, according to a report in The Asheville Citizen-Times. They will also include the work of Cherokee artists.

"These stories and these ideas are told as much as possible in the living words of a contemporary Cherokee storyteller or elder," said Edwin Bernbaum, director of the Sacred Mountains Program of The Mountain Institute, one of the partners in the project.