The Cherokee Nation will re-examine cultural and historical materials to determine if they appropriately address the role enslaved blacks played in building the nation. Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr ...
Schools and student groups can explore the deep history and living culture of the Cherokee Nation through a series of free education tours available this spring. The tours will be offered from ...
Melissa Payne has always known she was "Indian" -- her choice of descriptor -- and that her ancestors came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Where her lineage gets more complicated is that her ...
Guest Opinion Language, at its core, is a code that all cultures use like a time capsule to pass their history, values and ...
NMAI copy 39088019788645 gift of The Cherokee Nation. The history of the Cherokee Nation has been a long and winding road from ancient traditions and self governance to survival and a return to self ...
Through the end of May, the Cherokee Nation is offering free tours to students to help them learn more about the history and culture of the tribe. With 13 cultural attractions spanning over a ...
TULSA, Okla. — As the Cherokee Nation celebrates Black History Month, they’re highlighting their investment in black communities while making sure tribal history is accurate when it comes to Freedmen.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation marked the 186th anniversary of the Act of Union, where leaders of both governments, the Western or “Old Settlers” and Eastern Cherokees forcibly removed, ...
In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a post from Muscogee legal scholar Sarah Deer. It was about a court case I had not yet heard of. A man on Oklahoma’s death row was ...
When I saw this article in Sunday's Times Free Press, "John Ross House could be on move", I knew I had to say something. Ross was chief of the Cherokee nation in the mid 1800s and founder of Ross's ...