The Cherokee used legal means in their ... Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

The formerly landless United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee in Oklahoma may finally have a plot to call home, after a 10th Circuit panel lifted an injunction Thursday to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs ...

TAHLEQUAH – Sally Wilson, a supervisor for Indian Child Welfare with the Cherokee Nation, can cite disagreeable examples of Cherokee or Native overrepresentation and underrepresentation in federal and ...