That changed over the summer when the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma ... The signing took place July 24 at Kituwah Mound near the modern-day Western ...

An estimated 1,000 years old, 15-foot tall Nikwasi Mound is all that remains of a once major, 100-acre Indian village displaced by modern-day Franklin. Historians say the mound served as both ...

Besides the reasons for seeking a name restoration, other topics in this “Roots of Indigenous Heritage” presentation will include a narrative on Cherokee history and culture by Lavita Hill and a ...

Located in Cherokee, the EBCI was once part of a much larger Cherokee Nation population. However, when the “Trail of Tears” death march was mandated by the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the ...

Gill describes himself as a human being, a modern day traditionalist and a Cherokee. Credit: WHAS11 Staff "Growing up as an Indian boy in a small town that, like all small towns, ...

Duncan is training volunteers from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to share the legends and history surrounding 100 different ... Modern day Cherokee see those ancient people who raced on ...

The Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, opened a new exhibit last month about the Cherokee Freedmen, or the Black people once enslaved by the tribe. The display is one of ...

As we approach the 78th Independance Day, it is impossible to not reflect back upon Ranveer Singh’s "Lehra Do" from the film 83 which has become a modern-day anthem for Indians to rally behind ...

Trey Adcock, executive director for the Center for Native Health, believes history was made when around 20 Cherokee people gathered at an undisclosed location deep in Nantahala National Forest in ...

The Cherokee Nation announced it is honoring the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language by declaring Oct. 15 as “Sequoyah Day.” Skip to content WATE 6 On Your Side ...

Though the U.S. government absorbed Indian Territory into its newly created state of Oklahoma, the sovereignty of Native lands—such as the Cherokee territory pictured here in northeastern ...

ELIZABETHTON — The Cherokee Heritage Day, which will take place on Saturday at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area, will include a panel discussion entitled “Contemporary Cherokee Life”.