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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

“There’s some legends and stories about this particular area, this place we’re at right now,” said Tommy Cabe, who is the forest resource specialist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — A Lexington man has ...