Award-winning Cherokee artist Kindra Swafford is inspired by nature, animals and her Cherokee heritage. "The symbols used in the weave patterns and everything, it gives me an outlet and a connection, ...

Manitou Cave in Fort Payne, Ala., is safe for now. The Cherokee writing on its walls that dates to the Trail of Tears is secure and has been written about in academic journals. The tiny bats and ...

The Cherokee Nation has reclaimed part of its history all thanks to man with a famous ancestor. John Ross has rediscovered the Cherokee symbols for numbers originally developed by Sequoyah in the ...

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