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Tahlequah, Oklahoma - The Cherokee Heritage Center has created 10 traveling "Cherokee Themed" exhibits that will tour in fourteen libraries for the next year. The libraries are a part of the Eastern Oklahoma District Library System (EODLS). The project has been funded by a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). These exhibits are ideal for school groups.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a federal grant-making agency serving the public by strengthening museums and libraries. The subjects of the ten separate exhibits include Pre-Columbian, Government, Education, Belief, Daily Life, Removal, Warfare, Cherokee Contributions, Arts, and the Cherokee Today. Each exhibit will stay in a particular library for three weeks and then will rotate to another library until each library will have displayed all ten exhibits. Each library will also distribute accompanying reading lists.

The libraries presenting these exhibits include the Stilwell Public Library; the John F. Henderson Public Library in Westville; the Tahlequah Public Library; the Hulbert Community Library; the Grove Public Library; the Delaware County Library in Jay; the Jim Lucas Checotah Public Library; the Eufaula Memorial Library; the Rieger Memorial Library in Haskell; The Muskogee Public Library; the Q.B. Boydstun Library in Ft. Gibson; the Warner Public Library; the Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library in Sallisaw; and the Muldrow Public Library.

At the conclusion of the project, the completed traveling exhibits will be transferred to the Oklahoma Museum Association for rotation throughout the State's museum, library, and educational systems.

For more information, contact one of the above libraries or the Cherokee Heritage Center, phone: 888-999-6007.