For millennia, Cherokee inhabited vast portions of the Southeast, including the more than 500,000 acres of Tennessee and North Carolina that now form the national park. In 1830, the Indian Removal ...

Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and North Carolina. This was a period of voluntary Indian migration, however, and only a small number of Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws actually moved to the new lands.

He routinely called Indians “savages” and people ... they broached it at a council meeting in Red Clay, Tennessee, in August 1834, one Cherokee spoke of shooting them. Father and son slipped ...

Two women from Grove and Vinita are part of a 12-cyclist group to ride in Cherokee Nation’s Remember the Removal Bike Ride ...

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina ... favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to change the name Clingmans Dome to ...

For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer an Indigenous United States language — Cherokee. The new course recognizes the intertwined history of ...