Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. Negotiated in 1835 by a minority party of Cherokees, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee people and their elected government ...

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 ...

Native American journalism began 197 years ago when the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper was first printed on Feb. 21, 1828, in the ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy ... to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears ...

In what the Cherokee Nation leaders call a “shameful and cowardly ruling” the tribe will seek to overturn, an opinion handed ...

For Cherokees, agriculture has always been more than another industry. Producing our own food is not only a means of ...

In the late 1830s, his grandfather was one of thousands of Cherokee people forced from their tribal homelands east of the Mississippi River by the U.S. government and removed to Indian Territory ...

Criticized as cultural genocide, boarding schools discouraged and punished American Indian children for speaking their languages — precipitating ... of eliminating Indigenous languages and Indigenous ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...