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 ...

The Noquisiyi Mound, a sacred and historically significant site in western North Carolina, will soon be returned to the ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation marked the 186th anniversary of the Act of Union, where leaders of both governments, the Western or “Old Settlers” and Eastern Cherokees forcibly removed, ...

TULSA, Okla. – Cherokee Nation is partnering with the University of Tulsa's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to share the history of the Cherokee Freedmen and explore the tribe's connection with ...

In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a post from Muscogee legal scholar Sarah Deer. It was about a court case I had not yet heard of. A man on Oklahoma’s death row was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. – Almost 200 years after ...

An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North ...

Through the end of May, the Cherokee Nation is offering free tours to students to help them learn more about the history and culture of the tribe. With 13 cultural attractions spanning over a ...