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

— 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 ...

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

Seven years after it was first introduced and nearly 185 years after most of the Cherokee were forced west on the Trail of Tears, a bill seeking to return to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...

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.

"From time immemorial, Cherokee people have occupied the lands of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and other parts of what is today the southeastern United States," they said.

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 ...

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.

Brett Riggs is a professor at Western Carolina University who specializes in the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee, he said, believed mountains were holy places where the earth touched the heavenly realm.

The National Park Service and Federal Highway Administration continue to work toward emergency repairs for U.S. 441/Newfound ...