Today, the Cherokee Nation requires that a citizen have an Indian ancestor who appears on ... Deep South and west into Oklahoma in the early 1800s. The Freedmen say the Nation's decision prevents ...

That’s the hope of Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who’s counting ... Nation’s Sequoyah in the early 1800s. It will appear on the company’s high ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of ...

Many Native Americans were enslaved alongside ... That includes the Cherokee people, some of whom in the early 1800s had started to enslave African Americans. Then in the late 1830s, the US ...

Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the ... Kituwah during the Revolutionary War, and in the early 1800s, the U.S. government drove thousands of the Cherokee people ...

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians archaeologist Beau Carroll and ... was invented by a Cherokee man named Sequoyah in the early 1800s. Up to then, the Cherokee didn't have a written language.

It is estimated that 16,000 Cherokees were removed in the early 1800s and nearly a quarter ... while the other half were from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.