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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

By the time the South seceded from the Union, he was a slaveholder, and the majority of the Cherokee Nation voted to support the southern states. Former Brig. Gen. Stand Watie after the Civil War.

a senator from North Carolina who would soon serve as a general in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The mountain, however, has always been known as Kuwohi to the Cherokee people and is ...

The McAfee House, a pre-Civil War structure, is being relocated from Cobb County to Cherokee County to avoid demolition. The house was sold for $1 to Brittani and Lee Lusk, historic ...