Tribes forced from their ancestral lands by the U.S. government to present-day Oklahoma envisioned a state of their own 120 ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has clashed with Native American tribes over gaming, the McGirt decision and tribal sovereignty itself. For the Cherokee Nation, the state's largest ...

On Thursday, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) voted 2,464 to 1,057 to legalize recreational adult-use marijuana on Cherokee tribal territory, known as the Qualla Boundary. The vote is not ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

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; ...

Katherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, gives a talk on the "Cherokee Lawmen of the Frontier Era." Her talk provides some balance to romantic ...