Before European contact, the Cherokee had a practice of adopting and enslaving prisoners of war from other tribes.

On Dec. 4, the Ross Family Foundation dedicated the restored headstone of Annie Brian Ross Dobson, the daughter of former ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has clashed with Native American tribes over gaming, the McGirt decision and tribal sovereignty itself. For the Cherokee Nation, the state's largest ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, ...

Jan 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 Updated Jan 27, 2024 0 The Cherokee Nation is going viral with some of its most recent efforts to keep the Cherokee language alive and revitalize its language education ...

On Thursday, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) voted 2,464 to 1,057 to legalize recreational adult-use marijuana on Cherokee tribal territory, known as the Qualla Boundary. The vote is not ...

Crawford Goldsby was big, strong and a "bloodthirsty mad dog who killed for the love of killing." Before he was hanged at the age of 20, he was asked if he had any final words. "I came here to die; ...

Katherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, gives a talk on the "Cherokee Lawmen of the Frontier Era." Her talk provides some balance to romantic ...