But with the passage of the Indian Removal Act in ... shared values have endured, saying, “Family, tradition, and language brought us here.” The Cherokee Nation Youth Choir closed the ...

The three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, for instance, require members to be direct descendants of tribal citizens listed on specific federal census rolls; two also require a certain percentage ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of ...

enrolling 20 children of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The boarding school was closed in 1887, and Trinity moved to Durham a few years later. Trinity became Duke University in 1924 with the ...