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                Auburn University - University Relations
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6/16/95                 Mitch Emmons


** MEDIA ADVISORY ** 
      
      Thursday, June 29, has been designated as Media Day at 
Fusihatchee, a Creek Indian town near Tallassee that is being excavated 
by archaeologists from Auburn University and AU at Montgomery. 
      The event -- from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- is being sponsored as part 
of the Alabama Museum of Natural History's Summer Expedition program. 
Media will be able to interview high school students and others who will 
participate in week-long sessions at the dig site from June 18-July 15. 
      Lunch will be served.
      AU's John Cottier and AUM's Craig Sheldon have devoted a decade 
of study to the Fusihatchee site. The historic village was one of the 
major Upper Creek Indian towns in Alabama until the early 19th century. 
Its residents traded with the French and English and left behind a wealth 
of artifacts that Cottier says is becoming one of the largest collections 
in the Southeast.
      The town was destroyed by Andrew Jackson's army during the Creek 
Indian War of 1814.
      For more information and/or directions to the site, contact 
Cottier at 334/844-2835; or Sheldon, at 334/244-3765.
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      CONTACT: Mitch Emmons, 334/844-9999 (emmonmb@mail.auburn.edu)