The rich culture and heritage of the Cherokee people and the story of their forced removal from their homeland is sometimes ...

The Cherokee Nation’s reservation boundaries are now visible on Google Maps – an overdue acknowledgment of the tribal lands in Oklahoma. CNN values your feedback 1.

Buncombe County is just one small piece of traditional 100,000-square-mile Cherokee that maps with the project show was home to 36,000 Cherokee people in the early 18th century, a population ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 3.--An Indian Territory special says that an attempt is being made by a number of leading Cherokees to set aside the lease of a tract of land, known as the Cherokee outlet ...

In 1820, a Cherokee named Gideon Morris living near Cowee went on a trip. In his absence, white vigilantes burned his house and food, forcing his wife and children out into the winter.

It begins in the former Cherokee lands of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee and its terminus is Tahlequah, Okla., which serves as the tribal headquarters for the Cherokee to this day.

After more than three years of hostilities, Cherokee Indians signed a treaty with South Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor William Bull at Ashley Ferry Town on September 23, 1761.

Under the new agreement, Cherokee citizens can gather plants along the river if they register with the tribe, which will then notify the National Park Service, Mr. Harsha said.

The Cherokee Nation’s reservation boundaries are now visible on Google Maps — an overdue acknowledgment of the tribal lands in Oklahoma. “After the monumental US Supreme Court ruling in ...