Guest Opinion For generations, Cherokee people have understood that wellness is about far more than treating illness. Wellness starts before getting sick and needing medical attention and continues ...

Jordan Oocumma grew up hearing stories of the mound. His grandparents imbued his childhood with tales about the strip of land at the center of a Cherokee town built by their ancestors more than 1,000 ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is opposing the Lumbee Tribe’s push for federal recognition. North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe was part of a hearing on Capitol Hill on ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Fifty years ago, the City of Kingsport transferred a small plot of land to the Eastern Band of ...

The United Ketoowah Band of Cherokees is celebrating a recent opinion saying the tribe shares jurisdiction on Cherokee land. The larger Cherokee Nation disagrees, and both sides expect to go to court.

The Cherokee Nation now operates the former Claremore Indian Hospital and has renamed it the Claremore Outpatient and Emergency Health Center. The Nation assumed ownership of the hospital on October 1 ...

A long-standing dispute between the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians has now turned to Tribal Jurisdiction after a letter from Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. "This is a David ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. spoke to thousands of Cherokee citizens and guests from the heart of the tribe's capital city Saturday morning during his 6th State ...

For the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Qualla Boundary is also home to a justice system many people outside the tribe ...

Research is a dynamic process that takes many forms. Sometimes, to ask the right questions and gain nuanced understandings, immersion in a topic is necessary. It’s a lesson that Buck Woodard, ...

Economic identities : conceptions and practices -- Tourism : "Where are the Indians?" -- Bounding American Indian businesses -- Pillars of sovereignty : the case for small businesses in economic ...