The Cherokee found themselves in the center of ... “It’s sort of the Indian War of the twenty-first century,” he says. One day soon—no one knows exactly when—the United States Department ...

Hogan answered an old question for Cherokee Freedmen ... in the years after the Mexican-American War. While the myth that African slavery replaced Indian slavery continues to persist in ...

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 ...

CHEROKEE, North Carolina — Playing in the ... he said. “In time of war, the Indian’s ready to go.” ...

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 First Seminole War lasted from 1817 to ... missionaries who were helping the Indians resist removal. The court this time decided in favor of the Cherokee. It stated that the Cherokee had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828. Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.