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Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it's an idea older than Congress itself
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAt the Cherokee Heritage Center in Park Hill, Oklahoma, life-size sculptures depict the walk of the...
Cherokee Nation acquires 'Cherokee Kid' Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Cherokee Nation has announced its formal acquisition of the historic Oklahoma ranch belonging to...
The last time a prominent Cherokee politician tangled with tribes, he got what he wanted
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGov. Kevin Stitt, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has clashed with Native American tribes over...
Oklahoma’s new Native affairs liaison says he’ll repair relations. Critics doubt it
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhen lawmakers disbanded Oklahoma’s longtime Indian Affairs Commission in 2011, they said they...
"Roots of America" speaker, others tell more on history of the Cherokee
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis is about the second in the series of "Roots of America" lecture series, sponsored by the Oak...
The Cherokees, Sequoyah and the Trail of Tears
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOne of Chad Berry’s early slides during his Feb. 8 talk on Appalachia and its people acknowledged that Berea College, like East Tennessee, is located on...
Cherokee tribes vie for congressional delegate rights
Tahlequah Daily Press, Okla. via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSep. 26—Before colonial encroachment, all Cherokee people resided in the southeastern United States, and over the decades division occurred between the bands because of Congress' treatment of ...
Fort Gibson, army post, commemorates bicentennial. What was the role of frontier soldiers?
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoOklahoma commemorates two military bicentennials this year, which might sound odd for a state just...
Report: Oklahoma senator calls LGBTQ+ ‘filth’ when asked about Nex Benedict, gender legislation
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAn Oklahoma state senator is being quoted as calling the LGBTQ+ community "filth" and saying the...
THREE FORKS HISTORY: Editor served several early newspapers
Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAug. 5—In 1828 the Cherokees started publication of a newspaper called the Cherokee Phoenix. It began just a few years after Sequoyah had created a written form of the Cherokee language. The ...