The Cherokee Nation, nearly a half-million strong, is holding the U.S. government to a 188-year-old promise for congressional representation for the tribe. In 1835, then-President Andrew Jackson ...

Negotiated in 1835 by a small group of Cherokee citizens without legal standing, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee nation and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by ...

CALHOUN, Ga. — New Echota historical site, located about an hour and a half northwest of Atlanta, is the reconstruction of the Cherokee capital that led up to the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Indians ...

At the time of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, it is estimated that there were between 4,000 and 6,000 Cherokee homes in North Georgia. "People with Cherokee Indian heritage love to come visit New Echota ...

CALHOUN, Ga. - Wednesday marks exactly 190 years the first Native American-published newspaper rolled off a printing press right here in North Georgia. Creating the Cherokee Phoenix was a major ...

Nearly 200 years ago, the United States signed a treaty with the Cherokee people, bartering away the tribe’s ancestral homelands for a far-off reservation and putting the forced migration now known as ...

Let us fight together. United we are stronger. We have a shared history of facing long-standing injustice at the hands of the United States government and are now at a time when we can make real ...

He was a Cherokee leader who signed the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the tribe's removal from its homeland in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). He ...

Guest Opinion. The National Congress of American Indians is the oldest and largest intertribal organization in the country and brings together tribes from across the land to discuss and advocate for ...

The Cherokee Nation Film Office has announced Echota Killsnight as its first television apprentice. In fulfilling the new position, Killsnight learned firsthand from award-winning director John ...