THE CHEROKEES: IN WAR AND AT PEACE, 1670-1840" by David Narrett (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 608 pages, $35). "Tennessee" is derived from the Cherokee noun Ta-Nas-Ce, "river with a big bend," ...

John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee holdings in what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of ...

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 ...

An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North Carolina voted to return the land.

CHEROKEE, N.C. (Associated Press) - An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North Carolina voted unanimously Monday to ...