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Hickory leaves, which often used as flavoring in Cherokee cooking, in North Carolina on Oct. 3, 2023. They can be wrapped around dumplings or chestnut...

Students on a field trip to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, N.C. on Sept. 6, 2023. A campaign is underwa...

Nancy Pheasant, a Cherokee storyteller, talks to students on a field trip to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National P...

A view from Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2023. A campaign is underway to change the...

The commercial strip in downtown Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 5, 2023. Sales taxes from these shops support the tribe, along with revenues from a casino th...

Elk at Kituwah, an important cultural site for Cherokee people near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Kituwah, which is also called the Mother Town, i...

Charles Taylor, a member of the Eastern Band, at home in Asheville, N.C. on Aug. 28, 2023. Taylor said his grandparents told him to honor land they ca...

Amy Walker, an elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, in red, talking at a workshop on traditional Cherokee food in Westminster, S.C. on Apr...

Tyson Sampson lies near a riverbank in the Qualla Boundary, N.C. on Feb. 9, 2023. Sampson is among about 16,000 members of the Eastern Band of Cheroke...

A small cemetery in Cherokee, N.C., where several generations of Eastern Band members are buried, on Nov. 17, 2022. Countless generations of Cherokee...

Visitors from Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma gathered at Tyson Sampson's home in the Qualla Boundary, N.C. to prepare a huge meal, including traditional...

At Kituwah, which Cherokee people also call the Mother Town, Tyson Sampson carries an armful of Kershaw squash used to prepare a meal for visitors fro...

A tractor covered in morning glory sits at Kituwah, an important cultural site for Cherokee people near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Countless ge...

An heirloom corn stalk covered in morning glory at Kituwah, an important cultural site for Cherokee people near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Coun...

In Tyson Sampson's home, locally grown cabbage ferments in a crock, turning into sauerkraut, in Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Countless generation...

Amy Walker, an elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, collecting wild mushrooms near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. These mushrooms, call...

Amy Walker, an elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, while collecting wild mushrooms near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Walker has year...

Tyson Sampson and Amy Walker work in the garden in the Kituwah Mother Village near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2022. Heirloom varieties of corn, beans...

Amy Walker, an elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, collecting wild mushrooms near Cherokee, N.C. on Sept. 18, 2023. Countless generations...