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

U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), released the following statement after his bill H.R. 226, the Eastern Band of ...

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 ...

Yes, it’s a large document but in terms of the analysis and the facts, it was hasty ... There is nothing – in the historical record, statutes, legislative history, court decisions or elsewhere – that ...

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 ...

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann praised the passage by the House of his bill H.R. 226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act. It passed the House by a unanimous voice vote. It marks the ...

The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians do have “exclusive Tribal ... advocates — for tireless work to make this new page of history possible.” In a news release, the UKB said Anderson ...

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 Cherokee Nation’s Indian Child Welfare office, seen Sept. 17, is located on South Muskogee Avenue in Tahlequah. To contact ICW, call 918-458-6900 or visit icw.cherokee.org. Photo by Chad Hunter ...

TAHLEQUAH – Sally Wilson, a supervisor for Indian Child Welfare with the Cherokee Nation, can cite disagreeable examples of Cherokee or Native overrepresentation and underrepresentation in ...

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 ...