Forest Hazel
Forest Hazel lives in Mebane, NC. He has a BA and a MPH from UNC Chapel Hill and has worked as a law enforcement officer, community college advisor, factory worker, and project director for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Now retired, he researches North Carolina American Indian history, and the history of coal mining in the Tar Heel State. He serves on the North Carolina American Indian Heritage Commission and also keeps busy compiling a history of the State’s Indian schools.
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September 27, 2023 -
Facing South is republishing a piece from the 1985 Southern Exposure issue, “We Are Here Forever: Indians of the South,” with an introduction by author Forest Hazel, a historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina.
