In what the Cherokee Nation leaders call a “shameful and cowardly ruling” the tribe will seek to overturn, an opinion handed down in the final moments of the Biden administration ...

Native Americans are those who are indigenous to the United States and there are still 574 federally recognized tribes. They ...

The Lumbees have a history of shifting claims, including claiming Cherokee ancestry and other historical tribes ... and rigorous mechanism for determining whether a group comprised of Indian ancestry ...

QUESTION: When I looked online, I saw that the Wichita, Tawakoni, Kitsai and Caddo Indians ... Cherokee population had grown to nearly three hundred.” Texas entered a tumultuous time in its ...

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 ...

LONG VIEW: A group of Cherokee ... Band of Cherokee Indians' stewardship. Photo by Chloe Lieberman Trey Adcock, executive director for the Center for Native Health, believes history was made ...

The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians do have ... placing our Tribe on a renewed path towards prosperity. I want to recognize and thank our Keetoowah brothers and sisters — and our array of ...

and the latest exhibit at the Saline Courthouse Museum features the man’s work and history. Evan Feeley, interpretive project coordinator with Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism, said the new ...

The memorandum directs the Department of the Interior to promote and pursue federal recognition of North Carolina's Lumbee ...

The Lumbee Fairness Act (H.R. 1101), which would have granted federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina – a ...

According to representatives from the Cherokee Nation, including council speaker Mike Shambaugh and District Two Councilor Candessa Teehee, the annual meetings have turned into the UKB attacking the ...

That instinct is correct - facts relating to tribal history and the existence of Indian ancestry must be at the heart of any federal recognition decision," said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...