ceding Cherokee lands to the United States This spring, I visited the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., to see the Indian Removal Act, on display in the Archives’ Landmark Document Case.

Principal Chief Bill John Baker, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma On Friday ... But with the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, Southeastern Indian nations faced enormous pressure to move ...

The Cherokee used legal means in their attempt ... Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to ...

Native American journalism began 197 years ago when the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper was first printed on Feb. 21, 1828, in the ...

Dr. James Livingood, distinguished UTC professor, discussed the removal of the Cherokee from this area in excerpts from his "Chattanooga: Illustrated History:" ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on ...

So, Sequoyah created a Cherokee syllabary ... Even so, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that targeted the Five Civilized Tribes in the Southeast, including the Cherokees.

Nicholas, Tom, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith, and Sam Subramanian. "The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'." Harvard Business School Case 812-079, December 2011. (Revised February 2019.) ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...

Tahlequah is the capital city of the Cherokee Nation, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians holds a 76-acre complex in the city. Both tribes arrived in Oklahoma via ...