Manitou Cave in Fort Payne, Ala., is safe for now. The Cherokee writing on its walls that dates to the Trail of Tears is secure and has been written about in academic journals. The tiny bats and ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) -- Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have collaborated to interpret tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are ...

A man the Cherokee Nation calls the “most influential Linguist since Sequoyah,” will be laid to rest on Tuesday. Dr. Durbin Feeling passed away last week at the age of 74. He is remembered for his ...

VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Cherokee Nation announced it is honoring the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language by declaring Oct. 15 as “Sequoyah Day.” The principal chief of the ...