In 1951, four Cherokee leaders retraced the Trail of Tears, stopping in Cape Girardeau to present a peace pipe and smoke a ceremonial pipe at “Princess” Otahki’s grave.

Veterans are encouraged to register with the Cherokee Warriors Database, a centralized portal to identify thousands of Cherokee veterans who have served in this country’s military.

The Office of Army Cemeteries will begin disinterring 12 Native American students buried at the Carlisle Indian Industrial ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced that the tribe will be investing in a Cherokee veteran’s cemetery located in Tahlequah during a Memorial Day ceremony Friday.

In the early nineteenth century, white settlers in the eastern United States increasingly encroached upon the lands of Native Americans. Although the U.S. government had signed treaties demarcating ...

Culture is vital for recovery. That’s a lesson Juli Skinner, a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, learned during her ...

Perhaps even more importantly, the Cherokee Bible offers insight into Cherokee-specific meanings, interpretations of spiritual concepts and a benchmark for understanding how the language has changed.

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North ...

One of the most unusual chart-toppers of the 1970s failed multiple times before finally becoming a massive No. 1 hit years later.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians operates a large-scale cannabis business in North Carolina. This operation is a major economic driver for the tribe, employing over 250 members. The dispensary is ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

Four NC Cherokee Indian council members introduced an ordinance Thursday to ban data centers on tribal lands, calling them a “clear and present danger” to people and the environment. ”These facilities ...