The effort to change the name was led by Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who first settled the mountain and consider it ...

The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Tennessee’s only tribally owned museum, will host its 34th Cherokee Fall Festival on Sept. 6 ...

Last Thursday, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council passed a resolution in support of renaming the mountain, which is located along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Forced removal from a holy mountain The Cherokee Nation once spread across what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. The tribe was forced in 1838 to walk to present-day Oklahoma.

Before the Cherokee Indians were forcibly relocated in 1838, they lived for hundreds of years in what are now parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council has taken a “significant step forward” to renaming Clingmans Dome, according to a statement released by the tribe.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, introduced legislation in September 2015 seeking to return 76 acres of Cherokee homeland in Monroe County, Tennessee, to the Eastern Band of Cherokee ...

— The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is asking the federal government to follow an agreement made in the 1980s, and return land near the Tellico Reservoir and the Little Tennessee River to the ...

Kuwahi is a Cherokee word meaning “mulberry place.” Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Tennessee and the observation tower offers visitors to the summit 360° views of the Smokies.

Education AI project to preserve Cherokee language led by Cookeville professor Jesse Roberts, a Tennessee Tech professor, said that fewer than 140 first-language Cherokee speakers remain.