Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during t

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal

Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died on the Trail of Tears. B

Includes treaties, genealogy of the tribe, and brief biographical sketches of individuals.

Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern O