Black Cherokee MS a show we naïvely assumed

a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all

Emma Gonzalez

"Incredibly original and seriously scary

so that time and aging become part of the process

which is freedom

Black Cherokee MS a show we naïvely assumedBetty meets Queenie in this courageous coming of age story about a Black girl fighting for recognition in a South Carolina Cherokee community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate. Ophelia Blue Rivers is a descendent of Cherokee Freedmen: Blacks formerly enslaved by rich southern Cherokee. She is "Black" but doesn't understand why that makes her different. She is "Cherokee" but struggles to know what that means. Their town of Etsi once a