Note: This story was updated July 8 to correct the identification of Billy Kirkland. Two federally recognized Cherokee tribes have criticized the Atlanta Braves for the team's inclusion of tribes that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee of Georgia was recognized in 1988 and has about 400 members. They have held nonprofit status since 1989 for their mission ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Cherokee Nation leaders officially established Cherokee Nation Flag Day to reaffirm the tribes’ sovereignty and educate future generations about the tribe’s symbols and history.

The Cherokee Indian tribe is banishing 2,800 African-Americans from its membership rolls despite pressure from the U.S. government. The blacks are descendants of slaves owned by wealthy Cherokee ...

The three federally recognized tribes of the Cherokee have joined in a resolution opposed to any new building on Moccasin Bend and called for the preservation of land sacred to the tribe and its ...

The Cherokee Nation has taken a stand with other Oklahoma tribes to support and protect Medicaid expansion, which has been ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is opposing the Lumbee Tribe’s push for federal recognition. North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe was part of a hearing on Capitol Hill on ...

Native American response to healthcare crisis offers lessons for better health outcomes nationwide. Native American healthcare faces a crisis of inadequate care and higher disease rates, despite ...

In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a post from Muscogee legal scholar Sarah Deer. It was about a court case I had not yet heard of. A man on Oklahoma’s death row was ...