Cherokee language on the packaging of the Wilma Mankiller doll said “Chicken Nation” instead of “Cherokee Nation.” Critics said Mattel made other errors.
Tag: Cherokee Indians
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Cherokee Tribe Shares Native American Knowledge in North Carolina
Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. More people want to learn from them.
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UC Riverside Professor Who Claimed to Be Native American Resigns
Andrea Smith, an ethnic studies professor, will leave the University of California, Riverside, in an unusual agreement that avoids an investigation.
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Two Black Native Americans Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian.
A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack “Indian blood.”