The Cherokee Nation has unveiled plans to open the first tribally operated film education program: The Cherokee Film Institute. Launched through its filmmaking arm Cherokee Film, CFI is a 120-hour ...

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

Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation ...

Before the American Revolution, the Cherokee peoples had a trading relationship with the British, and ended up fighting on their side during the war that gained independence for ...

A first-of-its-kind medical school in the Cherokee Nation recently graduated its inaugural class. Oklahoma communities correspondent Adam Kemp reports on how the program was started and why the need ...

Duke will offer a series of Cherokee language courses this fall, marking the first time an Indigenous language will be taught at the University. Announced July 23, the course series begins in fall ...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claim to have Native American ancestry is brewing up a storm online, with many Native Americans deriding the official for mistaking DNA with identity. The subject ...

It's a complex history of displacement and forced assimilation as well as one of self-determination and, strangely enough, patriotism.