This is about the second in the series of "Roots of America" lecture series, sponsored by the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club and the Oak Ridge Center for Continued Learning. This one featured a ...

More than 50,000 members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina may gain federal recognition soon, a move that would grant the ...

For thousands of years, Native Americans have been in the land that’s now known as the United States of America. And yet, their history is still new to most Americans. In fact, the first presidential ...

Melissa Payne has always known she was "Indian" -- her choice of descriptor -- and that her ancestors came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Where her lineage gets more complicated is that her ...

Cherokee author Vanessa Lillie’s latest thriller, "The Bone Thief," blends mystery and Native history as she meets readers on a national book tour.

This is a selection from a conversation during the Appalachian Studies Conference at BPR’s Listening Lounge at Western Carolina University. A new exhibit at the Museum of the Cherokee People opens ...

An 18th-century relationship between William & Mary and the Cherokee Native Americans was renewed recently through an anthropology class’ visit to the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, home of the ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (WJHL)- Just a two-hour drive through the mountains from the Tri-Cities lies Cherokee, North Carolina, a town full of history, fun and adventure. It’s home to the Eastern Band of the ...

Last Thursday afternoon, Kacey Fishinghawk pedaled her Trek Domane road bike into Stilwell, Okla. The 23-year-old Fishinghawk, a member of the Cherokee Nation, was part of Remember the Removal, an ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council passed a resolution Thursday in support of changing the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Clingmans Dome. Long before ...

You can’t get any closer to the sun in Tennessee than when you stand atop Clingmans Dome, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s jewel topped by an observation tower along the state line. From the ...