Cherokee Heritage Trails, Tsalagi Usdi Nvnohi, wind through the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia in the heart of Cherokee homelands that once encompassed more than 140,000 square miles. In a region where Cherokee people have lived for thousands of years, places of myth and legend, village sites, memorials, museums, and other significant locations trace the Cherokee story. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has more than 13,000 members, many living on or near the Qualls Boundary, tribal lands that include the town of Cherokee, North Carolina. Annual festivals and events at some trail sites offer opportunities to meet Cherokee storytellers, basket weavers, stone carvers, wood carvers, gospel singers, musicians, and other artists from the Eastern Band, sample traditional foods, watch Cherokee stickball games, and hear the Cherokee language. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, owned and operated by tribal members, serves as the main interpretive center and presents an overview of Cherokee heritage and experience through an award-winning interactive exhibit. Other starting points for sites and one-day scenic drives include the Junaluska Memorial and Museum in Robinsonville on the Snowbird Cherokee community and Junaluska, the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin on Cherokee Middle Towns locations along the Little Tennessee River and relations between Scots and Cherokees, the Cherokee County Historical Museum in Murphy on the Trail of Tears and the leech place of Cherokee lore, the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore on Sequoyah and the Overhill Cherokee towns, Red Clay State Historic Area on nineteenth-century Cherokee life and removal from eastern Tennessee, and New Echota State Historic Site near Calhoun on the nineteenth-century Cherokee renaissance and removal.