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‘People need to know about this’: App State professors champion Indigenous voices

App State professors Paul Worley and Melissa Birkhofer encountered a 16th-century Spanish testimony during a 2019 student trip to the ancestral Catawba town of Joara, documenting a statement by Teresa Martín, an Indigenous woman from the Appalachian region who may have lived near the Virginia-North Carolina border. The professors are working to bring attention to Indigenous voices and historical records from the region.

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