The Principal Chief of one of the largest federally recognized tribes in the United States came to Monroe County on ... time with our fellow Cherokee citizens and their families," said Hoskin ...

Historically, the area that is known today as Monroe County was once the land of the Overhill Cherokee, which was the term used by European traders and British colonial explorers centuries ago.

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A bill returning historical sites in Monroe County to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House of Representatives for the fifth time ...

Bill seeking to return 76 acres of Cherokee homeland in Monroe County to tribe unanimously passes House, again Bill needs Senate sponsor, passage to make it president’s desk ...