John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee holdings in what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of ...

The Indian map and the White man's map -- Horseshoe, 1814. Every thing is to be feared ; Urge on all those Cherokees ; Stamping his foot for war ; It was dark before we finished killing them -- ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker on Wednesday lauded the U.S. Treasury's decision to replace President Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, saying Jackson's legacy "was ...

Jackson had been serving as a federal Indian commissioner when he launched his first effort to remove the Cherokees en masse. In 1817, he appeared with two other agents at the Cherokees’ council in ...