Nestled in the foothills of the Smokies and smack dab in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains ... along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In 2019, the mound was returned back to the tribe when ...

Typically, fall lovers would flock to Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North ... century structures that tell the story of the Cherokee Indians and later European settlers called home.

But Ridge promoted his protégé’s candidacy without naming him, dictating an essay to the Cherokee Phoenix that described removal as the tribe’s most pressing issue and warning against ...