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Her father, Bruce Law, would like to congratulate Brittany Law Weeks on graduating with the highest honors from Texarkana College with an associate degree in nursing on May 12th, 2022. Birttany has accepted a position at a local Texarkana hospital after she takes the National Council of Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. Weeks skipped over LVN and went straight to RN. She graduated with the highest honors, made the President’s List, and is a member of the Student Nurses Association. Weeks started going back to school at TC in 2013 and received her Associate of Arts, General Studies in August 2020, and started the RN nursing program right after. Weeks would like to mention her father Bruce Law, mother Lisa Law Stokes, James, and Phoebe, who is graduating magna cum laude this month from Texas High School in Texarkana. (Courtesy photo)

On July 1, 39-year-old Kayla Parris of Atlanta resident was killed on Highway 59 after being thrown from the vehicle after driver Zamanthyre Haire, male, 36, of Texarkana, Texas lost control of a 2003 Ford Expedition causing the vehicle to roll and eject Parris according to a police report. Neither party in the vehicle was wearing a seatbelt. Haire was not injured.

In 1830 the Indian Removal Act squeezed through Congress. This act applied to the Five Southeastern tribes composed of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole peoples. Following the American Revolution and War of 1812, white encroachments on tribal lands in the Southeast had resulted in gradual voluntary migrations of some native peoples west of the Mississippi. Yet the 1830 legislation required the separate tribes to begin treaty preparations for forced removal. And even though Texas was still a province of Mexico, repercussions over removal would soon be seen in Texas, particularly East and Northeast Texas. This brief essay focuses on Cherokee involvement.