As of this week, fewer than 2,000 Americans remain who can read, write, and/or speak the native Cherokee language — words and ...

With a new session underway for the Oklahoma Legislature, there is the annual avalanche of bills through which to sift, and ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha ...

On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,” ...

The alliance is aimed at leveraging the Catawba's resources to promote self-governance, land control, taxation and funding for S.C.'s state-recognized tribes.

A campaign promise kept by Donald Trump is renewing centuries-old questions about who gets to be Native in America.

For the first time in history, 10 Native American tribes from across South Carolina signed an alliance. And it came with the support of Gov. Henry McMaster. "Today we stand at a crossroads, where the ...

Simon Alexander Haley, my maternal grandfather, has had a big impact on my life, although I was too young to remember him.

Dr. James Livingood, distinguished UTC professor, discussed the removal of the Cherokee from this area in excerpts from his "Chattanooga: Illustrated History:" ...