The early 19th century was a time of upheaval ... The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians contributed funds for a strong steel gate at the cave entrance to protect the inscriptions.

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly ... This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many ...

Cultural attractions—the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the Oconaluftee Indian ... they ceded it to North Carolina near the turn of the nineteenth century. They have the documents to prove ...

Studying the 19th century is like being ... perfectly prefigured America’s 20th-century civil rights battles. What people actually called Ross was an Indian. Eventually, he was the principal ...

Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the ... By the end of the 19th century, the tribe had managed to buy back a parcel of its ancestral land. But Kituwah, which ...