JOAN ROSS, principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians, in a proclamation to his ... between them and the States threatening civil war, by which means alone can the Cherokee people hope to maintain ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, ... Some Indian nations simply refused to leave their land -- the Creeks and the Seminoles even waged war to protect their territory.

He was a Cherokee leader who signed ... becoming the only American Indian to achieve a general's rank on either side during the war. Stand Watie was named Degadoga, which means "he stands ...

The Cherokee Nation, nearly a half-million strong, is holding the U.S. government to a 188-year-old promise for congressional representation for the tribe. In 1835, then-President Andrew Jackson ...

When Lula Owl, the first member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI ... and only - officer from the EBCI to serve in World War I. But finding her new husband in Camp Lewis, the largest ...

British and American troops in the Indian Wars and the American Revolution, and by troops during the Confederate War. During the Cherokee wars, this route was used by a Regiment of Highlanders who ...

The most famous person associated with the war in Indian Territory was Stand Watie, a Cherokee, who was the only Indian to achieve the rank of a field general in the Civil War. He also was the ...

Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the ... Militias destroyed Kituwah during the Revolutionary War, and in the early 1800s, the U.S. government drove thousands ...

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names this week approved a formal request by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ... in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The mountain, however, has always ...