Nearly 200 years ago, the United States signed a treaty with the Cherokee people, bartering away the tribe’s ancestral homelands ... for access to Cherokee lands, which included vast hunting ...

The government offered the Cherokee Nation 5 Million Dollars and land in Oklahoma in exchange for their ancestral homelands ...

At Vanderbilt, the statement passed in the student senate reads: “We collectively acknowledge that Vanderbilt University occupies the ancestral hunting and traditional Lands of the Cherokee ...

“These places are Cherokee ancestral lands; they’re here because of thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship,” says Dunlavey, referring to the biologically rich areas that she studies ...

Journalist Rebecca Nagle discussed the fight over tribal land for the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s through an ancestral lens. Journalist Rebecca Nagle discussed the fight over tribal land for the ...

Known as the Trail of Tears, the removal saw thousands of Cherokees pushed from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Since 1983, the Cherokee Nation ...

Hill lives on her family’s ancestral lands in the Big Cove Community in Cherokee, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Cherokee High School and Western Carolina University, where she earned a B.S.

Leaders of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, another tribe that claims the area as its ancestral land, call the Koi’s connection to the land tenuous and its proposal an “illegal land ...

The pueblo jumped at the chance to buy the ranch in 2016 and embarked on a yearslong process that culminated Wednesday with the U.S. government bringing a major portion of their ancestral lands ...