Some Native nations are skipping America 250 festivities. Others are showing up to explain their side of history.

As crowds gather and fireworks explode to mark what to some is a purely celebratory moment, America 250 arrives for others as a complicated, dissonant occasion. In Western North Carolina, Eastern Band ...

CHEROKEE - The face in the painting is split down the center. On one side is the seal of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poarch Creek Indians Museum Unveils Exhibit Exploring Native Southeastern Art and Culture The Poarch Band of Creek Indians Museum ...

INDIANAPOLIS — More than 100 American Indian, Alaska Native and First Nations artists will gather at the 34th annual Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market & Festival this summer. Native artists from across ...

In the early nineteenth century, white settlers in the eastern United States increasingly encroached upon the lands of Native Americans. Although the U.S. government had signed treaties demarcating ...

VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — Let’s take you back in time to the early 1800s and tell you the story of the Cherokee man who could not read or write. Yet he developed a writing system for the Cherokee ...

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North ...

Murphy North Carolina has re-opened a portal into the town’s history. The Cherokee County Historical Museum has expanded into the other side of the old Carnegie Library downtown. The building was most ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (WLOS) — Throughout this year, there will be stories, events, and exhibits giving a nod to America’s two-hundred-and-fifty-year Anniversary. But, for all the pomp and circumstance that ...