The Department of the Interior withdrew a decision last month that affirmed the Cherokee Nation shares its reservation with ...
The Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band (UKB) remain locked in a longstanding dispute over jurisdiction, land-in-trust rights, and the recent Department of Interior opinion allowing the UKB ...
The Solicitor Opinion M-37084, which stated the Cherokee Nation reservation also belonged to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians for gaming purposes, has been permanently withdrawn.
Indigenous peoples like the Cherokee have roamed and settled the North American continent long before the formation of the United States. While their ancestral homelands were largely concentrated ...