Before European contact, the Cherokee had a practice of adopting and enslaving prisoners of war from other tribes.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) has introduced a bill which would sever all federal ties to the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, including their ability to operate gaming facilities. The bill comes after ...

Join'd together: the Anglo-Cherokee Alliance, 1730-1753 -- A general conflagration: the French and Indian War begins -- Killed on the path: Cherokees in the campaigns against Fort Duquesne -- Till ...