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Presentation at Smithsonian
 Author Martha Lou Perritti presents her novel, Standing against the Wind, based on her Cherokee heritage, to The Smithsonian’s National Museum for the American Indian. (L-R) Leonda Levchuk, Smithsonian Public Affairs; Martha Perritti; Christopher Turner, Resource Center, The Smithsonian. (September 2006)

 

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Martha's Aunt Mattie
 Martha’s aunt Mattie holds one of the roses on the bush next to her home. It grew from a clipping from the family bush in the Bankhead National Forest
Martha's Great Grandmother
 Actual tin type copy of Martha’s great grandmother-- (Rhoda Henderson in the novel)
Martha's cousin and mother
 Martha’s cousin Nila (L) with Martha’s mother Velvie looking at the massive wild rose bush from the family homestead in the Bankhead National Forest. It flourishes today
Martha and sister, Mildred
 Martha (L) with sister Mildred looking at the rose bush planted from a clipping of the family rose bush in the forest. In the novel, Rebekah planted it by her son’s grave stone
A tribal land sign
 A Tribal Land sign in the Bankhead National Forest