Like the Southern states, the Cherokee Nation allowed the enslavement of people of African descent and joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. Following emancipation, Foreman Sr. and his ...

In doing so, he became the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in the Civil War. His force at the time comprised Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. Watie led a delegation of ...

However, the judge ruled that the constitution does not negate the Freedmen’s treaty rights granted to their forebears at the end of the Civil War. In other words, Cherokee Freedmen are Cherokee.

The Cherokee say they have the right to determine their membership, while the the Freedmen say their expulsion violates the tribe’s post-Civil War treaty with the U.S. government. As the courts ...

The tribe abolished slavery in 1863. And shortly after the Civil War ended, the Cherokee Nation signed a treaty with the US government that granted full citizenship rights to those formerly ...

The Cherokee Nation recently stripped citizenship from a majority of African-Americans who descended from slaves of wealthy Cherokee Indians before the Civil War. Host Michel Martin discusses this ...

The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest tribes ... along when they were driven westward by white settlers. After the Civil War, the practice ended with the 1866 treaty, which also guaranteed ...

It’s been well documented that the Civil War had a prominent role and felt a significant impact due to the conflict. The Cherokee tribe famously aligned with the Confederacy, while other ...

students are learning about the periodic table of elements or the origins of the Civil War. However, in some classrooms, the lessons are a bit more personal — Cherokee students are learning the ...

I come from Chattanooga, a city on the Tennessee River that sits on and near land that was taken from the Cherokee Nation and that saw some of the most significant fighting of the Civil War three ...