Cherokee News

The ruling Tuesday by the state Court of Appeals supports an agreement that gives the statea TMs Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians the sole right to operate gambling games on tribal land.

Colbert County Sheriff Ronnie May says 45-year-old Larry Dale Cosby faces charges of second-degree assault of an emergency medical technician or volunteer firefighter.

Authorities said a man hit one emergency worker and chased others from his house with a fireplace poker and hand axe as the emergency medical technicians were trying to treat one of the man's relatives, according to a report in the TimesDaily of Florence.

Federal officials are investigating a bear attack that left the manager of a North Carolina zoo with serious injuries.

A member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians has pleaded guilty to trafficking dozens of bear gall bladders against tribal law.

Defendants Danielle Victoria Bigwitch, 21, of Cherokee; Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn, 30, of Cherokee; and Daniel Lee Reed, 35, of Sylva, were sentenced in U.S. District Court Friday for their roles in a murder which occurred on the Cherokee Indian Reservation on November 7, 2008.

Outside the annual Thanksgiving potluck dinner in the isolated Snowbird community, a remote corner of Graham County where the Cherokee language has deep roots, the parking lot is jammed full.

An altercation over money ended in a stabbing in Cherokee Sunday night. Police said the incident occurred outside a convenience store on Highway 72.

My first pair of athletic shoes were Chuck Taylor Converse. In those days we called them 'tenny' shoes.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will pass a ceremonial torch Friday to the Blue Ridge Parkway , marking the end of the Smokies' 75th year and the start of the parkway's diamond anniversary.

COKER CREEK, Tenn. - The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee Indians along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.

National Forest Service archaeologist Quentin Bass on Wednesday discusses the Unicoi Turnpike, which led to Fort Armistead, where thousands of Cherokee Indians were temporarily housed during their forced removal from their lands.

Native American artist and activist Shan Goshorn will visit Western North Carolina this week for a talk at Western Carolina University and a demonstration at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts.

Six young children - four girls and two boys - sit on the floor looking up at their teacher seated in a chair.

Editor's note: This story appeared following the July 1, 1997 rock slide that shut down Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge for several months.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians praised the new Kituwah Language Academy for the cultural renaissance that's now unfolding within its doors.

The Alabama Department of Public Health was notified this week about the death of a man in his 50s from Cherokee County, Ala., who tested positive for 2009 H1N1 influenza, also called "swine flu." This brings the total number of deaths of persons with H1N1 influenza in Alabama to 17.

Cherokee Class of '59 celebrates Homecoming Weekend - Twenty-four members of the Cherokee High School graduating classes of 1959 met over the recent Cherokee Homecoming weekend to renew old aquaintances, and catch up on what's been happening in their lives.

Earlier this month, our tribe held an election for Tribal Council. Every two years, our six voting districts elect tribal council representatives.

A Harvard law professor says whether descendants of former slaves once owned by Cherokee Indians have citizenship rights in the tribe is a moral issue.