Cherokee, and Chicasaw instituted policies of restricting land sales to the government. They wanted to protect what remained of their land before it was too late. Although the five Indian nations ...

“It is long past time for Congress to fulfill its promise to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and return the sacred land taken forcibly from them due to tragic and misguided federal policies ...

the Cherokee Outlet Run. The land rush included not just whites but around 3,000 African Americans. Many of these new arrivals offered yet another political vision: a black state in Indian Territory.

To close his prayers, Cabe sprinkled a pinch of tobacco over the land of his ancestors. Cabe, a forest resource specialist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and an enrolled tribal member in ...

passing laws that annexed Cherokee land and extended state laws to that territory. Within two years, the state would require any whites living among the Indians—such as missionaries—to sign an ...

after a 10th Circuit panel lifted an injunction Thursday to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs to divvy up a piece of Cherokee Nation land. (CN) – The formerly landless United Keetoowah Band of ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...