A look back at the first phone line in the Cherokee Nation and what is now the state of Oklahoma.

Before he became the famous “Cherokee Kid,” Will Rogers was known as “Lariat Bill.” In this Cherokee Almanac, we learn about an unlikely turn of events during his Broadway debut.

A glimpse into the life of WIlliam Shorey Coodey, a Cherokee Nation citizen buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C.

Meet Mary Golda Ross, a Cherokee mathematician who helped put a man on the moon.

A look back at New Echota, the Cherokee Nation’s first capital.

Reverend Daniel Butrick was a missionary to the Cherokees in the 1830s in present-day Chattanooga, Tennessee. His journal begins at the Brainerd Mission Station and is one of the only known detailed accounts of the atrocities of the Trail of Tears. Rev. Butrick recorded sickness and death in concentration camps, where thousands of Cherokees were kept before being forced on the Trail.

Archivists at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, discover a handwritten ceasefire agreement that essentially ended the American Civil War.

Learn how the federal government bought the land it had granted to the Cherokee Nation and then gave it away as part of the largest land run in U.S. history.

A look back to the so-called Emissaries of Peace: the 1762 Cherokee Delegation to London.

Learn about Sam Houston’s unique relationship with the Cherokees.