Tribes forced from their ancestral lands by the U.S. government to present-day Oklahoma envisioned a state of their own 120 ...
Jan 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 Updated Jan 27, 2024 0 The Cherokee Nation is going viral with some of its most recent efforts to keep the Cherokee language alive and revitalize its language education ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...
Crawford Goldsby was big, strong and a "bloodthirsty mad dog who killed for the love of killing." Before he was hanged at the age of 20, he was asked if he had any final words. "I came here to die; ...
Negotiated in 1835 by a small group of Cherokee citizens without legal standing, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee nation and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by ...
Katherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, gives a talk on the "Cherokee Lawmen of the Frontier Era." Her talk provides some balance to romantic ...