From life before European contact to the Trail of Tears to the modern-day tribal government, the Cherokee National History Museum tells the long, rich story of the Cherokee people. But one of the ...
A plot of land in western North Carolina that served as a starting point for the notorious Trail of Tears is being handed ...
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million ...
Throughout this year, there will be stories, events, and exhibits giving a nod to America’s two-hundred-and-fifty-year Anniversary. But, for all the pomp and circumstance that comes with the ...
Melissa Payne has always known she was "Indian" -- her choice of descriptor -- and that her ancestors came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Where her lineage gets more complicated is that her ...
An 18th-century relationship between William & Mary and the Cherokee Native Americans was renewed recently through an anthropology class’ visit to the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, home of the ...
GREENVILLE — Long before its namesake Nathanael Greene set foot in South Carolina, the lands of Greenville sustained life for thousands of Native people. Yet the city is filled with street names and ...
As crowds gather and fireworks explode to mark what to some is a purely celebratory moment, America 250 arrives for others as a complicated, dissonant occasion. In Western North Carolina, Eastern Band ...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation will be providing education on various aspects of Cherokee history and culture during their spring "Lunch and Learn" lecture series at the NSU Jazz Lab. "This is ...
In 1835, the Cherokee Nation was promised a delegate in Congress as part of the same treaty – Treaty of New Echota – that led to the death of thousands on the Trail of Tears. Nearly 200 years later, ...
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