Echota Cherokee Rickey “Butch” Walker to speak at Colbert County Landmarks

TUSCUMBIA – The Colbert County Historical Landmarks Foundation (CCHLF) will hold its Fall Quarterly Meeting on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. in the Helen Keller Library Conference Room located at 511 N. Main Street in Tuscumbia.

Ricky “Butch” Walker – To present at Colbert County Landmarks

Guest speaker Rickey “Butch” Walker, a member of the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama will deliver a power-point presentation on Chief Doublehead, one of the most powerful Chickamauga leaders and George Colbert. Further discussions of North Alabama Indian history will cover some of the Indian villages and settlements in the area, the tribes involved in the Chickamauga Confederacy and highlights of the Chickamauga War from 1775-1795.

Mr. Walker, born and raised in the Warrior Mountains and, “taught the old ways” of the ancestors and wilderness by his grandfather grew up with a fierce love for the Warrior Mountains in which his ancestors lived, died, and are buried. He is a long standing activist and advocate of wilderness preservation and protection.  Rickey Butch Walker is currently a writer and author of numerous books.

The meeting is free to the public. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. For more information please call Programs Chairman Tom McKnight at 1 (256) 635-8940, or Chairman Lanny Perry at (256) 383-4204.