If you’ve spent any time in the South or Midwest, you’ve probably heard a few people claim to have Native American ancestry (“Do you see these eyebrows? This bone structure?”) And, chances are, if ...

Ruth Ward was born in Dayton after her mother, who was half-Cherokee Indian and half-white, moved there from her family’s generational home in Tennessee to find work. Ward’s father came to Dayton from ...

The Cherokee Nation is the largest Native American tribe in the U.S., with around 365,000 citizens in its 14-county jurisdiction and beyond. The CN Registration Department receives about 1,000 to ...