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 ...

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 ...

The Cherokee freed their slaves in 1863 ... Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji is the author of the book Black Indian Genealogy Research: African-American Ancestors Among the Five Civilized ...

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 10. -- The jury of Cherokee Indians that tried M.M. Rowe, a half-blood Cherokee, at the Saline District Court House in Pryor Creek, Indian Territory, yesterday, for the murder ...

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.

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 ...

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.