The day’s activities will allow friends to get acquainted and enjoy the company of fellow tribesmen.

The Northern Towns district of Texas is sponsoring this event, and the final plans were put together this past Saturday as the tribe members met for their monthly meeting that is held in downtown Aubrey.

The Heritage Day’s activities will include tribal members from all over the state and other states as well as Cherokees from Mexico.

The community of Aubrey, formerly known as Onega (pronounced U-nega) was established some one-hundred-sixty years ago, as the tribes people were being forced from other parts of Texas and East Texas when the famous chief Dwali was defeated and left to die.

The events of the exodus in the Cherokee lives left the people searching for a place to change their identity and to begin life anew. Many went on into Mexico with other tribes.

The event is to include some of the area middle school students as well as other cultural students from North Texas State University and Texas Womans University.

At last report there will be approximately nineteen vendors participating with arts and crafts exhibits.

The hours for the event will be from 10:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m. Saturday, April 20.

Registration of all guests will be made available at the entrance and the tribe is stressing no drugs, alcohol, or firearms will be allowed.

The photo shows Mary Gennettie Daugherty as she was feeding the chickens in the front yard. Mary G. married Will Harmon of Onega and they reared their family in the Rockhill community. They were among the early day Methodists when the church had its begnnings before the area was known as Aubrey.