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A portrait of Major Ridge, an older Cherokee man.
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Revealed Through a Mountain of Paperwork

As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.
by Rebecca Nagle via HNN on September 24, 2024
Cherokee Trail of Tears beans.

How Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans Connect a Community to Its Roots

“It’s not just preserving seeds, it’s preserving our culture, our history, our way of life.”
by Sarah Lohman via Atlas Obscura on August 29, 2024
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., left, announcing that he is nominating Kimberly Teehee, right, as a Cherokee Nation delegate to the US House of Representatives

One of the Oldest Broken Promises to Indigenous Peoples Is for a Voice in Congress

A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.
by John Nichols via The Nation on November 14, 2023
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. with Kimberly Teehee

Cherokee Nation Is Fighting for a Seat in Congress

Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.
by Gabriel Pietrorazio via The New Republic on October 31, 2022
Wilma Mankiller on a quarter

Reconsidering Wilma Mankiller

As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
by Alaina E. Roberts via High Country News on June 6, 2022
Cherokee leader and Louisiana governor shaking hands

The Cherokee-American War from the Cherokee Perspective

Conflict between American settlers/revolutionaries and the Cherokee nation erupted in the early years of the Revolution.
by Jordan Baker via Journal of the American Revolution on July 29, 2021
flag of the Cherokee Nation

The 17-Year-Old Girl Who Was Once a Leader of The Cherokee Nation

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.
by Caroline Klibanoff, Allyson Schettino via Teen Vogue on November 30, 2020
Painting depicting Cherokee people riding, walking, and driving wagons on the Trail of Tears.

“Work of Barbarity”: An Eyewitness Account of the Trail of Tears

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.
by Evan Jones, Matthew Dessem via Slate on February 10, 2019
1884 map of land surrendered by the Cherokee Nation to colonial and U.S. governments from 1721 to 1835.

Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Nancy Schurr via Digital Public Library of America on September 18, 2017

How a Court Answered a Forgotten Question of Slavery’s Legacy

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on September 11, 2017

Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?

The history of a myth.
by Gregory D. Smithers via Slate on October 1, 2015
Talc and soapstone statue from North Carolina.

Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

Tales of strange, nocturnal people haunt the region—and so do theories about who they were, from a lost Welsh "tribe" to aliens.
by Hadley Meares via Atlas Obscura on October 22, 2024
Map of Cherokee Allotment from the Dawes Commission.

Coercion

“Allotment”—and its repercussions.
by Rebecca Nagle via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 8, 2024
Painting of three Native Americans in colorful clothing, with other figures walking through forest in background.

Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don’t Know About Indian Removal

The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.
by Jeffrey Ostler via Humanities on July 2, 2024
Portrait of Creek men.
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A Federal Court Has Ruled Blood Cannot Determine Tribal Citizenship. Here’s Why That Matters.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.
by Alaina E. Roberts via Made By History on March 9, 2024
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Beyond Dispossession

For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.
by Ed Ayers on December 6, 2023
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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The Supreme Court Stopped the Latest Assault on Native American Sovereignty

A long history of disrespect, dispossession and mass slaughter is crucial to understanding the case.
by Angus McLeod via Made By History on June 16, 2023
Production of Oklahoma! where actors in brightly colored clothing dance a square dance in front of a set of rural architecture and farmland.

Behind 'Oklahoma!' Lies the Remarkable Story of a Gay Cherokee Playwright

Lynn Riggs wrote the play that served as the basis of the hit 1943 musical.
by Jennie Rothenburg Gritz via Smithsonian on March 30, 2023
Map of the Cherokee Country in 1900

How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.
by Joel Richard Paul via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022
Delegates from 34 tribes in front of Creek Council House, Indian Territory, in 1880.

We Have Always Been Global: Tribal Nations in the Democratic Slide

In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.
by Noah Ramage via Perspectives on History on June 21, 2022
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Native Trails

Ed Ayers travels back to his childhood stomping grounds in search of traces of the dispossession that took place there generations earlier.
by Ed Ayers on June 13, 2022
Thomas Kitchin's 1760 map of the "Cherokee Nation".

The Remapping of America—From an Indigenous Point of View

New maps can revive Cherokee place names in Southern Appalachia and restore crucial knowledge amid an environmental catastrophe.
by Gregory D. Smithers via The New Republic on January 17, 2022
William Burnet meeting with Native American leadership

The Native American Roots of the U.S. Constitution

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.
by Robert J. Miller, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 15, 2021
"Join or Die" snake political cartoon.

The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s 'These Truths'

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.
by Ned Blackhawk via Diplomatic History on December 29, 2020
Men on horses walking through the desert.

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."
by Claudio Saunt via Literary Hub on October 14, 2020

Without Profit From Stolen Indigenous Lands, UNC Would Have Gone Broke 100 Years Ago

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.
by Lucas P. Kelley, Garrett W. Wright via Scalawag on September 15, 2020
A map of the Kingdom of the Happy Land.

A Black Kingdom in Postbellum Appalachia

The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.
by Danielle Dulken via Scalawag on September 9, 2019
Andrew Jackson, standing

Trump Wasn’t the First President to Confront the Supreme Court – and Back Down

The story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.
by Bethany Berger via The Conversation on July 17, 2019

The "Beneficial Exercise" of Walking the Trail of Tears

An examination of the excuses used to justify Andrew Jackson's violent expulsion of the Cherokee from their ancestral lands.
by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on May 5, 2019

Half the Land in Oklahoma Could be Returned to Native Americans. It Should Be.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
by Rebecca Nagle via Washington Post on November 28, 2018
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