CHEROKEE, N.C. (WTVD) -- November is Native American Heritage Month and it's a time when cultural events ramp up at Cherokee Middle School in Cherokee. "We're doing it now once a week for this month.

On May 14, 2022 at 3 p.m., the 400 Years Project co-founders Sheena Brings Plenty and Sarah Stacke will present The 400 Years Project: A Conversation on Photography in Indigenous Communities in the ...

For the Cherokee people, history is not something confined to bookshelves or archives. It shapes who we are and guides where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cherokee Nation says it will assume control of Claremore Indian Hospital Oct. 1, with plans to build a new facility by 2027.

This article was published in partnership with NBC News and the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists Association. On the blistering September day that ...

VONORE, Tenn. — 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 ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. — The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal council voted to contribute funds and workers to keep a U.S. Highway through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park open during a federal ...

In 2022, staff at the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal historic preservation office identified over 200 sacred or funerary objects in the Museum of the Cherokee People that should not be ...

The Noquisiyi Mound in Franklin seems poised to be returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after the town’s council voted unanimously to return the land last week. The mound was part of a ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina could soon expand sales at its new medical cannabis superstore to all adults, a tribal council member said at a recent council work ...