in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands. By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land ...
Michael John Witgren, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy ... The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, (Oakland: University of California ...
Joe Crittenden (U.S. Navy retired), deputy principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and a member of the advisory committee to the National Native American Veterans Memorial. (Photo by Jeremy Charles ...
Its artifacts include Cherokee Chief Tucquo ... losing its sovereignty to U.S. expansion, and the new form of sovereignty created by the Native American reservation system. “ ...
The Cherokee Nation’s first-come, first-served approach to heirloom seeds is being replaced with a random draw when the yearly distribution opens to tribal citizens Feb. 18.