This area was home to the Cherokee ... he described them as children in need of guidance. and believed the removal policy was beneficial to the Indians. Most white Americans thought that the ...

From 1882 to 1887, Trinity College, then in Randolph County, ran the federally funded Cherokee Industrial Indian Boarding School, enrolling 20 children of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The ...

That law is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), and it creates a separate, less protective set of rules to govern cases involving children who fit the genetic profile of Native American.

(KNWA/KFTA) — An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to three counts of child abuse in Indian Country ... within the Cherokee Nation ...