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 ...

FORT SMITH — The United States Marshals Museum announced Tuesday it has received a $100,000 donation from the Cherokee Nation to help tell the story of a pivotal moment in history between the ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

The center is part of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Visitors can sit inside ... and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee Nations of Oklahoma.