He helped create the Cherokee Nation’s three-tier system of government ... between those two destinations became known as the Trail of Tears. Ridge saw the treaty as the only way to gain ...

As a Cherokee Nation citizen of Freedmen descent and the tribe’s first Freedmen descendant to serve in the government ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

Orr was connected directly to the Cherokee Nation hierarchy and related by ... John Benge detachment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Benge, a Cherokee court judge, led a group of 1,200 Cherokees ...

The Cherokee Phoenix is calling for Cherokee artists to submit design concepts for the news organization’s 2024 Homecoming T-shirt.

Anthony Sequoyah, operations manager of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, talks about the relationship between the tribe, the Trail of Tears forced migration and nature.

The Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee is working ... the capital of the Cherokee Nation. The two statues will face one another like bookends, which he said is a symbol of the connection between ...

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

TAHLEQUAH – In a unanimous decision by tribal lawmakers, the Cherokee Nation has withdrawn from the Tri-Council, describing the annual gathering as an outlet for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee ...