The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on ...

the treaty signers gave up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River. In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

The Cherokee went to the Supreme Court again in 1831. This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831 ...

Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state ... by peculiar and cardinal distinctions which exist nowhere else. The Indian territory is admitted to compose a part of the United States.

Sure, there are countless Billy the Kid adaptations and plenty of Western yarns about Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but never did these real-life historical figures play themselves. There was one ...

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Tahlequah is the capital city of the Cherokee Nation, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians holds a 76-acre complex in the city. Both tribes arrived in Oklahoma via ...

Newspaper publication had its start in Indian Territory when the Cherokee Advocate was first printed in 1844. Serving the ...

The solicitor general for the Department of the Interior issued an opinion Friday afternoon stating that the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ... is the historic territory of the UKB ...

The Trail of Tears commemorates the path that 17 groups of Cherokee, called detachments, traveled by land and water to reach ...