TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation announced 10 women-owned Cherokee companies recently received investments to help businesses grow. Cherokee Nation, in a partnership with The University of Tulsa (TU ...

In September of 1838, Nancy Still filed a claim to recoup $820 she said was stolen from her after federal troops expelled her and other Cherokee Indians from their homes in what is now North Georgia.

In 1992, Wilma Mankiller gave the commencement address at Flagstaff’s Northern Arizona University. Several years earlier, Mankiller had become the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, ...

I: Crisis of gender -- Cultural continuity -- Early catalysts for change -- The trail of tears -- II: Crisis of the Civil War and reconstruction -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction -- III: Crisis of ...