When the Blue Ridge Parkway construction that was begun in 1935 claimed part of the land owned by Vangie Wolfe Stephens' grandfather in Cherokee, it also claimed the family homestead. “The Blue ...

In the 1800s, when the Cherokee people were removed to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, some traveled ...

(As early as 1745, Cherokee Chief Skiagunsta remarked ... And so it would go for decades: the log cabin supplanting Indian traditions, right up through the Trail of Tears, at the end of which ...

In September of 1838, Nancy Still filed a claim to recoup $820 she said was stolen from her after federal troops expelled her and other Cherokee Indians ... filed for a log cabin, bricks, eight ...

Budy and his staff of historians took charge of the cabin more than a year ago. They took it apart and moved it west along the Cherokee Strip all the way to Enid. “All the logs were numbered ...