FY09 State Historic Park Facts 
Georgia Chapter Benefits
The TOTAbase has been developed to help communications and to provide an avenue by which all members can view research conducted on behalf of the Georgia Chapter. Among other things members will be able to use a dynamic Google Earth map of The Cherokee Nation in Georgia which has been created by and will be updated frequently by our President, W. Jeff Bishop; view site inventories, photographs, documents, and resources. This is a work in progress so you'll want to visit the TOTAbase frequently.
TOTAbase is available to only Georgia Chapter members of the TOTA. Active members (dues have been paid for the current year) will be issued a username and password as soon as the webmaster receives word of payment from National. If you have have not received your login information, please contact the webmaster.
Announcements
Cedartown Removal Camp site
Cedartown Removal Camp site added as a certified site on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, 9 November 2009.
Georgia Chapter, TOTA, Meetings
- September 11th, 2010
Place: Cedartown
Time: 10:30 am
Topic: Cedartown Creek Removal Camp
Presentor: Jeff Bishop, President of GaTOTA
- November 13th, 2010
Place: Funk Heritage Center, Waleska, Gerogia
Time: 10:30 am
Topic: Report on Fort Buffington
Presentor: Stephanie Joyner, Cherokee County Historial Society; and Erin Andrews, archaeologist
What's In the News?
Threatened Native American Sites
Do you know of a Native American site that is threatened or burials that are being disturbed?
Visit the Web site for Georgia's Council on American Indian Concerns. The Councils site provides links to Georgia Laws and related details. In addition "Cemetery Information Links" are provided by the Georgia Historic Preservation Division.
Find Your State & Federal representatives
A good link for someone to use to find out their State & Federal representatives is http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/FindLegislator.htm
TRAIL OF TEARS HERITAGE TRAIL has been expanded to include Georgia
On March 30th, 2009 President Obama signed the bill which expands the Trail of Tears national historic trail into Georgia. Read the press release or read about about the expansion of the public lands in the Political Intelligence.
Trail of Tears Association
The Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) is a non-profit, membership organization formed to support the creation, development, and interpretation of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. In 1987, Congress designated a national historic trail commemorate the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838 - 1839.
The Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association is one of nine state chapters which have been chartered to assist the Trail of Tears Association with its many tasks.
Each chapter has its own board of directors, including officers. This body organizes the chapter for meetings, research, and activities. Activities of the Georgia Chapter include documenting sites relating to the Cherokee people and the Trail of Tears.
Don't miss
Georgia Chapter Blog
On the Trail of the Trail of Tears
A day-by-day account of the Georgia chapter of the Trail of Tears Association's efforts to establish the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in Georgia
or our
Georgia Chapter Newsletters
The Georgia Chapter Newsletters are online.
Memorial to Tommy Cox, past president
William Thomas "Tommy" Cox, Sr.
(21 Feb 1941 - 24 Feb 2010)
Tommy was a staunch advocate of the Trail of Tears Association and a great man has died tonight following a long battle with cancer. Just before 10 p.m., we received word that Tommy Cox, immediate past president of the Georgia chapter of the Trail of Tears Association and national TOTA board representative, has passed away. More...
Selected Photographs from the reception for Charles O. Walker on the 27th of March 2010. Walker has assigned the copyright of his four books on the Cherokee to the Georgia Chapter of TOTA.
Photo Galleries
- A small photo gallery from the 2009 TOTA Conference & Symposium at Guntersville State Park, Guntersville, Alabama
- A small photo gallery from the 2008 TOTA Conference & Symposium in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Snapshots from the Georgia Chapter Meeting in Cedar Town, May 10, 2008
- A small photo gallery from the 2007 TOTA Conference & Symposium in Rome, Georgia
- Conference planning meeting at New Echota
- Snapshots from the Georgia Chapter Meeting in Rome, January 2007