Art is central to Tafoya’s earliest memories, her artistic development continually encouraged and inspired by her family and ...

‘THE CHEROKEE WORD FOR WATER’ What: Film drama based on the story of the Cherokee Nation’s Wilma Mankiller and Charlie Soap and the early 1980s development of a waterline in Bell, where residents ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

Nestled within the Smokies is one of the country's oldest tribal museums. Located on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, the tribal museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has a new, vibrant look.

Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. The movie is told ...

PORT TOWNSEND — At first look, the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic, “The Cherokee Word for Water,” is about Wilma Mankiller. The larger picture, though, spotlights community members getting ...

Cherokee National Treasures (Recipients of the Cherokee National Treasure Award) Cherokee National Treasures (Recipients of the Cherokee National Treasure Award) Notes "Our Cherokee National Treasures ...

Pictures have such power. Bright and bold or quiet and soft, the stories they tell vary as widely as those told by words alone. What happens when powerful pictures and beautiful text meet in the same ...

The Cherokee Nation has launched another effort to keep its language alive. The tribe is working with Microsoft to have the Cherokee language available for spreadsheets or Power Point presentations.