Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. The movie is told ...

Nestled within the Smokies is one of the country's oldest tribal museums. Located on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, the tribal museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has a new, vibrant look.

This is the story of how Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, and activist Charlie Soap helped the people of Bell, Oklahoma, dig an 18-mile trench to bring running water and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college ...