do your part to respect and nourish that history by learning about our culture instead of treating it as a costume. Aaliyah Swimmer is a a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and ...

Ledford chuckles at re-enactors who like to don historical costumes without always understanding ... and would become the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians with some 15,000 enrolled members.

Paperdoll costume for an Ojibwe dancer ... cornered by well meaning folk who seem hell bent on telling me everything they know about Cherokee — the universal Indians, in their minds. Breathlessly, ...

Boston Shields, a sophomore of Cherokee decent and another member of Ohio State’s American Indian Council, thinks Depp’s costume offers an opportunity for the country to learn. “Anyone ...

"I respect all cultures and I would never mock one. I am Cherokee Indian, and I am also well aware of what many tribes encountered in the past," she said. Alec Baldwin's outspoken daughter also ...

In the early 1990s, a local poet of Cherokee heritage ... of young American Indians. The Maine West Warrior was personified by a student dressed in a buckskin-like costume and a feathered headdress.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A Cherokee woman calls on the owner of a Halloween store to pull what she considers Native American-themed costumes she says are racially insensitive. Lori Sanders saw ...

VONORE, Tenn. — The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is asking the federal government to follow an agreement made in the 1980s, and return land near the Tellico Reservoir and the Little ...