Margaret Verble, a member of the Cherokee Nation, writes about the lives of Native Americans in the modern era.

Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were looking forward to their annual Cherokee Indian Fair this year — 2024’s event was to be the 112th celebration. There were going to be Indigenous ...

Martin (Cherokee Nation), president ... principal author of the President’s Report to Congress on American Indian Religious Freedom. In 1984, in memory of her husband, Frank Harjo (Muscogee ...

The tribe revived the newspaper as the Cherokee Advocate in Indian Territory until the ... of the overall subjugation of Indigenous culture, beliefs and traditions that occurred over generations.

beliefs, language, and art. The Atsila Anotasgi (translated as fire builders) Cultural Specialist team, comprised of enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, are active teachers and ...

Photograph by JOSUÉ RIVASTribal affiliation: Mexica and Otomi Protesters fighting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline leave the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Indian ...

The U.S. Army forcibly removed more than 15,000 Cherokees and marched them westward to "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma, a journey the Cherokee called the "Trail of Tears." As many as a quarter of ...

Bloomingdale author George Bryjak explores the connection between the people here before the Europeans and the America signed into being in 1776 Philadelphia. Consider the book’s epigraph from ...

From 1882 to 1887, Trinity College, then in Randolph County, ran the federally funded Cherokee Industrial Indian Boarding School ... Studies Initiative “Trinity College started as a religious ...

Joyce Dugan, former Ugvwiyuhi (Principal Chief) of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, received a prestigious award on the ...

This story is co-published by the Rapid City Journal and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the ...