Thomas King spent his career writing about Indigenous communities - Ulf Andersen An award-winning author who wrote extensively about his Cherokee ancestry has discovered he is not Indigenous at the ...

Sandra Muse Isaacs, who self-identifies as Eastern Cherokee, has been teaching Indigenous literature at the University of ...

I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

The Cherokee Nation is the largest Native American tribe in the U.S., with around 365,000 citizens in its 14-county jurisdiction and beyond. The CN Registration Department receives about 1,000 to ...

From life before European contact to the Trail of Tears to the modern-day tribal government, the Cherokee National History Museum tells the long, rich story of the Cherokee people. But one of the ...

Ruth Ward was born in Dayton after her mother, who was half-Cherokee Indian and half-white, moved there from her family’s generational home in Tennessee to find work. Ward’s father came to Dayton from ...

The number of Americans who claim Native American ancestry is growing and the tribe claimed most often is Cherokee. But the popular story of Cherokee blood is a myth for most Americans. And Anne-Marie ...

The Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc. will host a Cherokee ancestry one-day workshop 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 5. Registration will be at 10 a.m. and the consecutive sessions will begin at ...