KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Members of the United States Congress passed a bill earlier this week that calls for the return of 76.1 acres of land to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. District 3 Republican ...

TENNESSEE (WDEF) — More than 76 acres of land may be returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill, officials said on Tuesday. U.S. Representative ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — A bill that would give land located in Monroe County back to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House on Tuesday, according to a release from Representative ...

Seven years after it was first introduced and nearly 185 years after most of the Cherokee were forced west on the Trail of Tears, a bill seeking to return to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians more ...

Born in 1876, Cherokee Bill—Crawford Goldsby—was of Cherokee, African American, and white ancestry. His mother, Ellen Lynch, a Cherokee Nation citizen, passed down her heritage through her paternal ...