The land has been held by the government for a few decades, but Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) has been working on getting it back in the hands of the Cherokee tribe.
These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western ...
LONG VIEW: A group of Cherokee people returned to these ancestral lands in October as part of an ongoing effort to illustrate to the U.S. Forest Service the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
Robert T. Anderson, a solicitor, wrote the memorandum, stating the UKB is a federally recognized Indian tribe comprised of Cherokee people with headquarters on the Cherokee reservation in Northeastern ...