Native American healthcare faces a crisis of inadequate care and higher disease rates, despite federal obligations. Through the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' innovative healthcare solutions ...

Cherokee Nation and the U.S. Department of the Interior partnered to help preserve and advance Native ... the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian ...

February is Black History Month, and The Journal Scene is featuring articles that highlight Black legacy in the town of ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations ... Jackson's attitude toward Native Americans was paternalistic and patronizing -- he ...

TAHLEQUAH – Northeastern State University is hosting its annual “Native Strong Day,” an American Indian recruitment event, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Jan. 24. “The nation’s longstanding leader among four-year ...

Following a lengthy discussion about what constitutes “regalia,” a second bill protecting student’s rights to wear tribal ...

The McClung Museum worked closely with tribal governments, who selected co-curators from four Native Nations with Ancestral ties to Knox County — Cherokee Nation, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, Eastern ...

That instinct is correct—facts relating to tribal history and the existence of Indian ancestry must be at the heart of ... The Lumbees have a history of shifting claims, including claiming Cherokee ...

LAST MONTH, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUED TWO D.A.S IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA TO STOP THEM FROM PROSECUTING TRIBAL CITIZENS WHO COMMITTED CRIMES WITHIN INDIAN COUNTRY. THOSE NATIVE AMERICANS CAN ... THE ...

Her own father was also German, she tells us, so her one-quarter “Indian blood” could also be stated in reverse, as three-quarters German. But it is her official identity as a Native American ...

Through Cherokee Nation and Sequoyah’s partnership with the Bureau of Indian Education, the Native American Agriculture Fund and the Tribal Agriculture Fellowship, the program will provide hands-on ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Indian ... the Cherokee people and other Native peoples from their homelands by the U.S. government. Another easy target for Trump was Biden’s executive order titled Advancing ...