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 ...

A bill returning historical sites in Monroe County to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House of ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white man before the mid-1800s. The Canadian west had already been mapped but there were only a handful of explorers, missionaries and fur traders on ...

“Because the Keetoowah originated as an organization of Cherokee people on the Cherokee Reservation in the 1800s, there is no ... the UKB under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act, that any land ...

The land has been held by the government for a few decades, but Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) has been working on getting it ...