Oconaluftee River Fall Foliage
by Felix Lai
Title
Oconaluftee River Fall Foliage
Artist
Felix Lai
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Photograph - Photograph
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This photo captured the beautiful fall foliage at Oconaluftee River, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Oconaluftee River[4] drains the south-central Oconaluftee valley of the Great Smoky Mountains in Western North Carolina before emptying into the Tuckasegee River. The river flows through the Qualla Boundary, a federal land trust that serves as a reservation for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee (EBCI), the only federally recognized tribe in the state of North Carolina. They bought the land back from the federal government in the 1870s, after having been pushed off and forced to cede it earlier in the nineteenth century. Several historic Cherokee towns are known to have been located along this river.
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June 4th, 2023
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