TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Nearly 3,000 people whose ancestors were enslaved by Cherokee Indians in the 1800s are fighting to keep their status as members of the tribe... TAHLEQUAH, Okla.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Oconaluftee Indian Village and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian ... covers the conflicts of the Dragging Canoe era of the 1800s, Henry Timberlake’s visitation with the Cherokees in the ...