In North Carolina, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians found a way to take care of their people: In 1997, they opened a casino on their lands. Now South Carolina’s Catawba tribe wants to do the ...

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, ... Cherokee Indians in Washington in 1866 to negotiate the treaty with the United States. Apic / Getty Images.

CHEROKEE, North Carolina — Playing in the woods came naturally to Reuben Taylor, who grew up in the mountains of the Cherokee Indian Reservation in western North Carolina in the 1930s.“There ...

The Cherokee Nation is well known around the country for being very inclusive Indian tribe. We have citizens of African-American descent certainly and really of all sorts of ethnic backgrounds.

He was a Cherokee leader who signed the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the tribe's removal from its homeland in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). He ...

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.

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THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. Share full article. June 26, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 26, 1861, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Lula Owl, the first member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to become an RN, arrived in S. Dakota in 1916 for her first paid nursing position.