Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee of Georgia was recognized in 1988 and has about 400 members. They have held nonprofit status since 1989 for their mission ...

Note: This story was updated July 8 to correct the identification of Billy Kirkland. Two federally recognized Cherokee tribes have criticized the Atlanta Braves for the team's inclusion of tribes that ...

The Cherokee Indian tribe is banishing 2,800 African-Americans from its membership rolls despite pressure from the U.S. government. The blacks are descendants of slaves owned by wealthy Cherokee ...

Native American response to healthcare crisis offers lessons for better health outcomes nationwide. Native American healthcare faces a crisis of inadequate care and higher disease rates, despite ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Two Native tribes in Oklahoma are responding to a federal opinion that affects the jurisdiction of their territory which is a large part of northeastern Oklahoma. The Cherokee ...

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 ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

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 ...

The Cherokee Nation has taken a stand with other Oklahoma tribes to support and protect Medicaid expansion, which has been ...

Long before the Cherokee and other Native tribes called the Appalachian Mountains home, legends speak of a mysterious people who wandered the hills under the moonlight. Known as the Moon-Eyed People, ...