The land has been held by the government for a few decades, but Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) has been working on getting it ...

A bill returning historical sites in Monroe County to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House of ...

The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on February 4, 2025.

the treaty signers gave up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River. In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

The Cherokee went to the Supreme Court again in 1831. This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831 ...

Tahlequah is the capital city of the Cherokee Nation, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians holds a 76-acre complex in the city. Both tribes arrived in Oklahoma via ...

A ruling by a U.S. Department of the Interior officials has given the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians jurisdiction over tribal lands.

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A memorandum issued Jan. 17 by the Department of Interior Solicitor’s Office reaffirmed the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee ...

Sure, there are countless Billy the Kid adaptations and plenty of Western yarns about Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but ...

Newspaper publication had its start in Indian Territory when the Cherokee Advocate was first printed in 1844. Serving the ...

The Trail of Tears commemorates the path that 17 groups of Cherokee, called detachments, traveled by land and water to reach ...