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The Congressional Cemetery is the final resting place for 13 Cherokees, ranging from Cherokee Nation delegates who traveled to Washington D.C., to children, to tribal judges.
The birth of Native American journalism occurred 195 years ago when the Cherokee Phoenix was first printed on Feb. 21, 1828, in the then-Cherokee capital of New Echota.
Two Cherokee community organizations, one in Oklahoma and one in California, recently worked together to place new headstones on two Cherokee graves.
‘Lapse of time cannot divest Indian nations of their treaties and treaty rights.’
In 1835, the Cherokee Nation was promised a delegate in Congress as part of the same treaty — Treaty of New Echota — that led to the death of thousands on the Trail of Tears. Nearly 200 years later, the Cherokee are still fighting to make that promise a reality.