Before Cherokee Bill became a name whispered across saloons and frontier posts, he was a boy shaped by trauma, displacement, ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. -- Charlene White didn’t learn the whole story about her grandfather’s secret number until she was 12. Prior to that time, she knew only that he had scrawled the mysterious digits -- ...

Crawford Goldsby was big, strong and a "bloodthirsty mad dog who killed for the love of killing." Before he was hanged at the age of 20, he was asked if he had any final words. "I came here to die; ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., presents Cherokee Days, a free three-day festival featuring storytelling, films, dance, music, family activities and ...

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 ...

Jan 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 Updated Jan 27, 2024 0 The Cherokee Nation is going viral with some of its most recent efforts to keep the Cherokee language alive and revitalize its language education ...

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...

“There’s some legends and stories about this particular area, this place we’re at right now,” said Tommy Cabe, who is the forest resource specialist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a ...