Nearly 200 years ago, the United States signed a treaty with the Cherokee people, bartering away the tribe’s ancestral homelands for a far-off reservation and putting the forced migration now ...

The Cherokee Nation was promised a seat in Congress in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. A recent congressional hearing suggested the tribe could be close to seating a delegate. Kim Teehee ...

Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent ...

Under the Treaty of New Echota, brokered between the US government and a minority group of Cherokee leaders who claimed to represent the tribe, the Cherokee were made to give up their ancestral ...

The story of the Cherokee Nation cannot be told without the story of the Treaty of New Echota. Agreed to in 1835, and ratified by the Senate and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson the ...

For example, in eastern Tennessee, the Treaty of Holston, signed in 1791, was made in theory to help establish clear boundaries between Cherokee and settler communities. The U.S. government would ...

Last week, Cherokee Nation went to Capitol Hill to ask that a nearly 200-year-old treaty be honored to give the tribe representation in the federal government. Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin ...

It recently held the first hearing on seating the Cherokee Nation’s delegate that was promised in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota ― which led to the Trail of Tears ― in the U.S. House of ...

The Cherokee Nation is calling for US to enforce an 1835 treaty. The House Committee on Rules is expected to hold a hearing this month about whether the Cherokee Nation will have a delegate serve ...

Back in 1835, the Treaty of New Echota guaranteed the Cherokee Nation a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. It's a promise that still hasn't been fulfilled nearly 200 years later.