QUESTION: When I looked online, I saw that the Wichita, Tawakoni, Kitsai and Caddo Indians had once settled in the East Texas ...

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 Lumbees have a history of shifting claims, including claiming Cherokee ancestry and other historical tribes ... Self-identification and sincere belief in Indian ancestry, while meaningful on a ...

A symbolic gathering on ancestral lands fortifies collaboration between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the U.S.

One of Chad Berry’s early slides during his Feb. 8 talk on Appalachia and its people acknowledged that Berea College, like East Tennessee, is located on lands originally occupied by what is now ...

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 ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians petitioned to change the name ... “Anytime we can gather for history lessons and especially with language speakers, it's something we need to take advantage ...