Throughout this year, there will be stories, events, and exhibits giving a nod to America’s two-hundred-and-fifty-year Anniversary. But, for all the pomp and circumstance that comes with the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will hold Cherokee Days Friday, March 31, through Sunday, April 2, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. This free event showcases the shared history and ...

The museum's fifth annual Cherokee Days Festival brings together members from the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes (Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Eastern ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Fifty years ago, the City of Kingsport transferred a small plot of land to the Eastern Band of ...

Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. More people want to learn from them. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one ...

A plot of land in western North Carolina that served as a starting point for the notorious Trail of Tears is being handed ...

Melissa Payne has always known she was "Indian" -- her choice of descriptor -- and that her ancestors came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Where her lineage gets more complicated is that her ...

The late Dr. James Livingood, distinguished University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor of history, discussed the Cherokee removal in excerpts from his "Chattanooga: Illustrated History": "The ...

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For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer an Indigenous United States language — Cherokee. The new course recognizes the intertwined history of ...