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 ...

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 ...

This is about the second in the series of "Roots of America" lecture series, sponsored by the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club and the Oak Ridge Center for Continued Learning. This one featured a ...

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. – Cherokee Nation is partnering with the University of Tulsa's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to share the history of the Cherokee Freedmen and explore the tribe's connection with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cherokee Nation leaders and Cherokee language speakers joined representatives from Kiwa Digital Ltd. on Tuesday to launch the ...