In 1827 the Cherokee adopted a written constitution declaring themselves to be a sovereign nation. They based this on United States policy; in former treaties, Indian nations had been declared ...

U.S. Army troops along with various state militia, moved into the tribe’s homelands and forcibly evicted more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama ...

John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee ... most Indians—or white men. But his mother and grandmother raised him in a traditional household, teaching him the tribe ...