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Bill seeking to return 76 acres of Cherokee homeland in Monroe County to tribe unanimously passes House, again

Seven years after it was first introduced and nearly 185 years after most of the Cherokee were forced west on the Trail of Tears, a bill seeking to return to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians more than 76 acres of sacred homeland in East Tennessee last week passed the U.S. House on a path its sponsor hopes takes it to President Joe Biden s desk. ....

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