Introducing New Guided Tours for Fall Deepen your Museum of the Cherokee People visit with a guided tour. This fall, MotCP is pleased to offer Atsila Anotasgi Cultural Specialist-led tours of the Museum's main exhibition. Join a member of the Museum's education team...
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EBCI reverses course after NCAI agrees to changes
After the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) altered its membership criteria to allow non-federally recognized tribes to join, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were faced with a difficult decision: continue to support a vital organization whose resources...
Greenland Rejects Unauthorized Oil Exploration in Show of Indigenous Power
Navajo Nation citizen Jacqueline Keeler reports in her Substack on an attempted subterfuge by financiers and other allies of the current regime, caught red-handed in what she called "one of the most audacious private resource grabs in recent Arctic history" and turned...
I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating.
Please let this Native American's Opinion Inspire Us in the Importance of our Educational Efforts I’m not ready to throw the practice of land acknowledgments out. The form is too small for what it carries; there’s no way to spell out four centuries of dispossession in...
Dr. Tom Belt Native Health Lecture On Tohi’
THIS YEAR'S LECTURE BY KITUWAH (CHEROKEE) ELDER, DR. TOM BELT on TOHI': KITUWAH PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH "TOHI', in the Kituwah world, reflects things moving in a normal, peaceful way. Elders have described tohi' as the clouds and grass moving at their own pace, not...
Feds Threaten To Erase Tribal Voices from Historic Preservation
For more than three decades, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has given Tribal Nations a meaningful voice in federal decisions affecting sacred sites, ancestral landscapes, burial grounds and other places central to Native culture and identity....
History Can’t Be Patriotic if It Requires Silence
From Native News Online by Levi Rickert July 14, 2026 Opinion The first lesson of Indian boarding schools wasn’t reading or writing. It was silence. I was reminded of that during Labor Day weekend 2022 while talking with a tribal leader at a protest against...
Pictures from the Garden
A Picture Story from the Garden Trip We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the garden located at Kituwah on June 16, 2026. The Center for Native Health does an awesome job of growing nutritious food and beautiful plants. We pulled some weeds, moved some mulch and helped...
Feds Decimate Sacred Land in Utah
Yesterday the US Government, by executive fiat, eliminated protection for 90% of the lands in the Bears' Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments in the State of Utah, placing tribal nations in the unenviable position of once again having to fight to...
Coming Up: The Way We See the World
Museum of the Cherokee People’s signature summer event returns! On Friday, August 7, we celebrate the fifth year of The Way We See the World, Museum of the Cherokee People’s community dedicated to uplifting film, music, and art by emerging Native creatives. Held right...