The project will research the spiritual practices, values, assets, and science of the Taskigi land and its use with: 1) the Muscogee community by identifying ancient traditions, cultures, artifacts, descendants of ancestors who inhabited the Taskigi land but scattered and/or integrated into African identities with some in Oklahoma where many were removed; 2) the white settler ‘communities who moved westward from Georgia and took over the lands from the Muscogee community and established the commerce of cotton on their plantations and who brought and used African Peoples for labor; c) the African and integrated African community with and without multiple identities who share an enslavement and sharecropping past but also resilient; d) compare, align and integrate this research into a series of least four papers for use in presentations with and to the partners and related networks.
The work will create the foundational framing of a rural land center in partnership with these communities that honors the land and people with a public education program, an immersive land and soil curriculum, and the support of an Oral and Video History Project with the recording of stories that includes the editing and upgrading of a preexisting video archive. of some ancestors.