Cherokee Nation

A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.

Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.

As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.

Conflict between American settlers/revolutionaries and the Cherokee nation erupted in the early years of the Revolution.

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.

The history of a myth.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

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.

A long history of disrespect, dispossession and mass slaughter is crucial to understanding the case.

Lynn Riggs wrote the play that served as the basis of the hit 1943 musical.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.

Ed Ayers travels back to his childhood stomping grounds in search of traces of the dispossession that took place there generations earlier.

New maps can revive Cherokee place names in Southern Appalachia and restore crucial knowledge amid an environmental catastrophe.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."