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 ...

Through the end of May, the Cherokee Nation is offering free tours to students to help them learn more about the history and culture of the tribe. With 13 cultural attractions spanning over a ...

The Noquisiyi Mound, a sacred and historically significant site in western North Carolina, will soon be returned to the ...

When I saw this article in Sunday's Times Free Press, "John Ross House could be on move", I knew I had to say something. Ross was chief of the Cherokee nation in the mid 1800s and founder of Ross's ...

TULSA, Okla. – Cherokee Nation is partnering with the University of Tulsa's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to share the history of the Cherokee Freedmen and explore the tribe's connection with ...

Muskogee, Okla.–The Cherokee Nation will host a history presentation for Freedmen descendants seeking to reclaim their roots inside the Martin Luther King Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Friday, June 20 ...

In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a post from Muscogee legal scholar Sarah Deer. It was about a court case I had not yet heard of. A man on Oklahoma’s death row was ...

NMAI copy 39088019788645 gift of The Cherokee Nation. The history of the Cherokee Nation has been a long and winding road from ancient traditions and self governance to survival and a return to self ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation marked the 186th anniversary of the Act of Union, where leaders of both governments, the Western or “Old Settlers” and Eastern Cherokees forcibly removed, ...