A federal court hearing Wednesday pits Native Americans against the descendants of African slaves once kept by tribal members. The Cherokee Nation has moved to expel the people known as Cherokee ...

The Cherokee Nation is investing $23 million into addiction treatment centers, the tribe announced last week. The investment ...

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The Cherokee Indians are planning the recreational sale of marijuana which could start in about one month, ABC affiliate WLOS reported. The tribe opened the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary ...

Voter approval of the revocation of a casino license in Arkansas has now prompted a lawsuit by Cherokee Nation Entertainment. Arkansas residents repealed a license for Pope County that many local ...

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 ...

North Carolina-based Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) will officially be opening its cannabis dispensary on tribal land, effective as of April 20. This will also mark the opening of North ...

TAHLEQUAH — For the first time in the Cherokee Nation’s history, the State of the Nation address came from an elected official with a three-word title. As part of the tribe’s 59th annual National ...

With keys in hand and a team of coworkers and friends carrying belongings behind her, Carma Brown stepped inside her new home. It’s the first she’s ever owned. After about six years on a waitlist for ...

Anthony Sequoyah, operations manager of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, talks about the relationship between the tribe, the Trail of Tears forced migration and nature.

Should Washington have a say in who is considered a full-fledged member of a Native American tribe? That question has now moved to the forefront of a heated racial battle within the Cherokee nation, ...