Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the crowd respond to Black History speech on Feb. 16, 2024. (Photo/Chad Hunter for Cherokee Phoenix) As a tribal nation ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation will hold a ceremony sending off the cyclists taking part in the annual Remember the ...

Culture is vital for recovery. That’s a lesson Juli Skinner, a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, learned during her time in foster care, years later working in child welfare and now, as the ...

Cherokee Nation officials announced plans to continue an expiring federally funded meat distribution program.

This summer bike riders from two Cherokee tribes are retracing the Trail of Tears. Along the way they'll learn about the forced removal of their ancestors. Cyclists from two Cherokee tribes are ...

The National Indian Gaming Commission approved the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians' gaming ordinance, and then the tribe signed a gaming compact with the state of Oklahoma. It comes as the ...

Language expert Tom Belt translates some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians archaeologist Beau Carroll and Cherokee Nation citizen and historian Julie Reed ...

The Noquisiyi Mound in Franklin seems poised to be returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after the town’s council voted unanimously to return the land last week. The mound was part of a ...

There are over 700 miles of interstate between the last Eastern capital of the Cherokee in New Echota, Georgia, and the ...

Should Washington have a say in who is considered a full-fledged member of a Native American tribe? That question has now moved to the forefront of a heated racial battle within the Cherokee nation, ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation named three new leaders for three of their tribal departments. Sally Wilson has been named Senior Director of the tribe's Indian Child Welfare department, ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner launched millions of dollars in new health ...