Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. More people want to learn from them. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

When Lula Owl, the first member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) to become a registered nurse, arrived in Wakapala, South Dakota, to assume her first paid nursing position in 1916 ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council passed a resolution ... Senate, was also expelled from his Congressional post after expressing support for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

This original Indian Path was also known as the Congaree River Road, and extended beyond 500 miles to connect trade centers of our neighboring states of today. Indians carried skins ...

It is important that we address a recent “Chief Chat” from Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.

It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous peoples for centuries. But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally ...