<\/P>\r\nThe bill places about 76 acres in Tennessee into trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians<\/a>. It also creates two permanent easements, covering another 20 acres, for the tribe, headquartered in neighboring North Carolina.\r\n <\/P>\r\nThe acreage includes significant cultural and historic properties that were part of the historic Cherokee Nation<\/a>. The lands are currently managed by the federal government through the Tennessee Valley Authority<\/a>.\r\n <\/P>\r\nThe lands include the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, the Chota Memorial and the Tanasi Memorial. The state of Tennessee draw its name from the Cherokee site known as Tanasi.\r\n <\/P>\r\n“Tanasi served as the Cherokee capital as early as 1721,” said Rep. Chuck Fleischmann<\/a> (R-Tennessee), the sponsor of the bill. “Unfortunately, due to misguided federal policies, the Cherokee were forced from their homes in Tennessee and surrounding states. This \r\ntragic period in American history led to the Trail of Tears, a journey \r\nin which 15,000 Cherokees were forcibly marched to the Indian \r\nterritory.”\r\n <\/P>\r\n“My bill returns important historic sites back to the Eastern Band of \r\nCherokee Indians, the Tribal Nation comprised of descendants of those \r\nCherokees who resisted removal in the Great Smoky Mountains and escaped \r\nthe Trail of Tears,” Fleischmann said.\r\n <\/p>\r\nFollowing consideration, the House approved the bill by a voice vote under a suspension of the rules.\r\n <\/P>\r\nNote: Thumbnail photo by Brian Stansberry<\/a> (CC BY 3.0<\/a>)\r\n
","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on February 4, 2025.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-video-entry.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,14,334],"tags":[5366,3795,534,176,5965,48,186,175,184,43,669,5966],"class_list":["post-116219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-119th","tag-chuck-fleischmann","tag-eastern-cherokee","tag-genocide","tag-h-r-226","tag-house","tag-land-into-trust","tag-languages","tag-north-carolina","tag-sacred-sites","tag-trail-of-tears","tag-tva","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/05\/hr226.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-uev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116235,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116219\/revisions\/116235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
