Invoking tribal health and cultural survival, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has declared a ban on fracking on its sovereign land in what is today North Carolina...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee, deprived for centuries of the white-tailed deer that symbolizes their culture, are in the process of getting their icon back...

This Date in Native History: On December 24, 1865, a group of confederate Civil War veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee...

On Veteran’s Day (observed) November 12, 2012 two boys from New York will return military service medals to the family of Medal of Honor recipient Charles George...

I first met Eddie Box Sr. over the telephone in April of 2006 while I was living in Durango, Colorado and working at the Sky Ute Casino for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe ...

Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina will add five members to its Sports Hall Of Fame, including the late Henry Owl, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...

Arlinda Locklear, Lumbee, the first female Native American attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, served as commencement speaker for the May 12 events at the College of Charle...

What’s the size of a Smart car and has a shell that could be used as a kiddie pool? If you answered Carbonemys cofrinii , or “coal turtle,” you would be correct...

In 1984 the Town of Manteo in North Carolina made a request that a Native American named Rowley be honored...

Last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina celebrated the completion of phase I of its $650 million casino expansion...