The first phase of a comprehensive housing study by the Cherokee Nation predicts a deficit of $1.75 billion in housing for Cherokee citizens in the region over the next decade with a need of more than 8,800 housing units of all types and price points.

Cherokee Nation announced today that, as a result of their agreement with Indian Health Service, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma will assume responsibility for their exclusive UKB members’ purchase and referred care program – a federally funded, independent health care program for tribes – effective January 1. 

The Cherokee Nation recently achieved a landmark victory by reclaiming the deeds to five historic Boarding School Era day school sites after four decades of negotiations with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

We represent approximately 320,000 citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Progress for at-large citizens has been the result of decades of advocacy by various leaders and Cherokees at the grassroots level. Although there is still more work to do, the progress made in recent years is…