Many tribes are encouraged by Trump's choice of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a member of the Cherokee nation, as the new DHS Secretary. ICE agents have been accused of racially profiling Native Americans.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1946 Congress authorized recognition of “the Keetoowah Indians of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma,” described as “a band of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Cherokee Nation has signed an agreement with the federal government to take over operation of the Claremore Indian Hospital. The Claremore facility is the last Indian Health ...

The majority enacted the Cherokee Act of Union which consolidated the governments of the Western Cherokee and the removed Cherokee but by 1846 the federal government soon realized that a new treaty ...

Samantha Brawley got hooked on painkillers after high school, an addiction that stole nearly a decade and cost her most of the savings that were supposed to help improve her life. Finding her next ...

From left to right, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Council of the Cherokee Nation Speaker Johnny Jack Kidwel ...