ElCaT Annual Meeting
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Alto, Texas
May 1 - 2
Agenda
May 1
11:30 AM: Check-In and Registration Opens
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM: Welcome and Introductions
12:15 - 1:00: Deborah Burkett, Women Along the El Camino Real, 1700s - 1800s
1:00 - 1:45: Amy Heath, To Relate: How Indigenous History Inspires Today
1:45 - 2:15: Noah Duke and Josh Diamond from Mission Tejas, The First Texan Highway: Where Paths and Ideas Meet
2:15 - 2:30: Break
2:30 - 2:45: Annual Public Service Award recognizing Senator Robert Nichols
2:45 - 3:15: Aaron Gates from Mission Dolores State Historic Site, Interpreting a Mission Without Walls: Telling the Story of Mission Dolores Along El Camino Real
3:15 - 4:00: John Zumwalt from Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, The Road Beneath the Road: Caddo Origins of El Camino Real de los Tejas
4:00 - 4:30: Carolyn Spears, Digging into Diaries: Native and Introduced Plants Along El Camino Real de los Tejas
4:30 - 4:45: Break
4:45 - 4:55: Texas Historical Commission Update
4:55 - 5:15: Angelica Sanchez-Clark and Jori Welchans - National Park Service Update
5:15 - 5:30: General Membership Business (Election of Board Members and Vote on Bylaws Amendments)
5:30: Conclude
May 2
9:00 AM - 1 PM: Cherokee County Site Tours
Optional Addition - 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
