Cherokee Nation

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.

The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.

The story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.

An examination of the excuses used to justify Andrew Jackson's violent expulsion of the Cherokee from their ancestral lands.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

He’s been called “the art world’s Rachel Dolezal.”

Trump has called Andrew Jackson a "military hero and genius and a beloved president."

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.

An unlikely alliance in antebellum America.

A spotlight on a primary source.

15th century dogma connects the genocide and land dispossession of Native Americans with the enslavement and oppression of African Americans throughout history.

Forget changing only the names that honor the horrors of the past. Some biologists now argue no species should ever be named after a single individual.

Native editors are fighting back.

Did you know that there was a hidden utopia of formerly enslaved people located in the mountains of Appalachia?

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

Some Native Americans chose to fight for the Southern cause.