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 ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed an executive order outlining expanded initiatives the tribe is taking ...

In response to the great threat this posed, the Creeks, Cherokee, and Chicasaw instituted policies of restricting land sales to the government. They wanted to protect what remained of their land ...

Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misidentified Jared Wheatley as a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Wheatley is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

While UKB bought the land in 2000, the Eastern District of Oklahoma sided with the Cherokee Nation in 2017 ... a name that refers to their original eastern homeland. The 15,000-member United Keetoowah ...