{"id":34515,"date":"2024-01-16T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=34515"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:28:27","slug":"wes-studi-explores-family-history-on-finding-your-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/01\/16\/wes-studi-explores-family-history-on-finding-your-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Studi explores family history on ‘Finding Your Roots’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Finding Your Roots with LeVar Burton & Wes Studi!<\/a>

This week on #FindingYourRoots we uncover stories that our guests #LevarBurton and #WesStudi have long wanted to hear. We introduce our guests to ancestors\r\nwhose names they\u2019ve never known and reveal connections to significant moments in history.\r\n\r\nTune into PBS tomorrow at 8\/7c for a brand new episode of #FindingYourRoots with #LeVarBurton and #WesStudi.<\/p>Posted by Finding Your Roots<\/a> on Monday, January 15, 2024<\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n

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Wes Studi explores family history on ‘Finding Your Roots’<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, January 16, 2024<\/div>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nAward-winning Cherokee actor Wes Studi<\/a> is making history as the first Native person to appear on the long-running PBS television series Finding Your Roots<\/em><\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nStudi’s episode debuts on PBS on Tuesday evening. In a post on social media<\/a>, he encouraged his followers to tune in.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“My episode is out today! What an honor to be a guest on the 10th season of of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Studi wrote in a post<\/a> tagging the show and the show’s longtime host, Dr. Henry Louis \u201cSkip\u201d Gates Jr<\/a>.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\nStudi was born on the Cherokee Nation<\/a> in present-day Oklahoma in 1947. The description for his episode of Finding Your Roots<\/em><\/a> states that the acclaimed film and television star<\/a> grew up without his biological father.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“I’d say things like, ‘I don’t have a Dad,'” Studi says in a clip of the show<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe clip also mentions the genocidal Trail of Tears<\/a>. In the 1830s, the U.S. government forced the Cherokee people to leave their homelands in the southeast for the Indian territory now known as Oklahoma.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“We’ve lived with that pain for a long time,” Studi says of an era in which countless Cherokee people lost their lives and their lands.\r\n

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