Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
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Oct 15, 2026
Shawn SpainhourHOST
In eighteen fifty-nine, a surveyor renamed it after a senator and Confederate general who never asked to see it protected and had no real connection to it at all.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
In September of twenty twenty-four, after a campaign led by two Eastern Band citizens, the United States Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously to give the mountain its name back.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
Officially, formally, on every federal map going forward, it is Kuwohi now.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
I wanted to open with that because it is a genuinely rare thing, a real undone piece of the history we covered in the last episode, corrected within the last two years, not a hundred years ago, and it sets the tone for this whole visit.
Andrea WalshGUEST
And so, unfortunately, you know, some of the, the history and the culture has been difficult to, um, bring back.
Andrea WalshGUEST
But today, there is a large Choctaw population in West Tennessee, and then there's still a very large Cherokee influence, again, in East Tennessee, with Cherokee, North Carolina being right there, uh, where part of the reservation is for the Eastern Band of Cherokee.
Andrea WalshGUEST
But we still have influence from, again, Chickasaw, Muscogee.
Andrea WalshGUEST
But there have been a, like myself, people from other regions and other tribes that have moved here to Tennessee, and only about 25 to 30% of Natives live on reservation land.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
And now some listener comments from our wonderful audience.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
First up, a listener on Spotify heard our stories about James Tallarico widening the gap over Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race and young women from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians defending the interconnected waterway system between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
And they said, loved hearing about Texas and the Cherokee victory.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Such hopeful news today.
Lon StricklerHOST
MP said the encounter had happened three years before he submitted his account.
Lon StricklerHOST
Now, at the time of writing, he described himself as 22, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the resident of a small community in the reservation in the Smoky Mountains.
Lon StricklerHOST
He lived with his wife, also 22, and their son, who was approaching his third birthday.
Lon StricklerHOST
One evening, his cat was outside.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
Tzali, his brother, and his sons were executed near the mouth of the Tukasegi River.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
His sacrifice became and remains one of the foundational stories of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a single man's choice that allowed several hundred of his people to stay on their homeland rather than be marched a thousand miles west.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
That group of Cherokee who remained, joined by others who slipped back from the removal march or evaded capture entirely, became the ancestors of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who live, to this day, on the Kuala Boundary land the tribe purchased outright, rather than a reservation granted to them, bordering the southern edge of what is now the National Park.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
The Koala Boundary today covers roughly 80 square miles across several counties in western North Carolina, a small fraction of the original Cherokee homeland, but a genuine, sovereign, continuously inhabited piece of it.
Shawn SpainhourHOST
The Eastern Band gained federal recognition in the 20th century and today numbers more than 16,000 enrolled members.
Laura FlandersHOST
So how do we find our stories? How did you find yours? And another part of your book I think that's very powerful is, you know, we've been through this period of transformation and new storytelling, and I was actually in Cherokee.
Laura FlandersHOST
I was, I was in North Carolina with the Eastern Band of Cherokee, and in Cherokee they have a new museum, or they have the old museum.
Laura FlandersHOST
[laughs] Um-
Joy HarjoGUEST
Yes
Chris CanoHOST
One place that I've s- been to recently that is, it has captured what you all are saying is, you know, with, uh, having a diversity of salespeople, was when I went to the Great Smoky Cannabis Company in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Chris CanoHOST
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, um, operates their own dispensary.
Marc MatozaGUEST
Right.
Chris CanoHOST
And, and when you walked in there, I saw a diversity of staff behind the counter-
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The decisions are a win for the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO, the labor unions that brought the lawsuit.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
On January 8, 2026, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council convened in Cherokee, in what is today the U.S. state of North Carolina, to consider and later approve a resolution brought forward by the NAIWA Daughters, the youth arm of the North American Indian Women's Association.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
made up of a group of indigenous girls between the ages of 10 and 17.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The resolution recognizes the inherent legal rights of the long person, or vigenvida, the interconnected waterway system whose headwaters rise in the Great Smoky Mountains and travel more than 1,270 kilometers, branching through multiple states before its feet, as the Cherokee describe it, reach the Gulf of Mexico.
Lon StricklerHOST
MP said the encounter had happened three years before he submitted his account.
Lon StricklerHOST
Now, at the time of writing, he described himself as 22, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the resident of a small community in the reservation in the Smoky Mountains.
Lon StricklerHOST
He lived with his wife, also 22, and their son, who was approaching his third birthday.
Lon StricklerHOST
One evening, his cat was outside.
Lon StricklerHOST
MP said the encounter had happened three years before he submitted his account.
Lon StricklerHOST
Now, at the time of writing, he described himself as 22, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the resident of a small community in the reservation in the Smoky Mountains.
Lon StricklerHOST
He lived with his wife, also 22, and their son, who was approaching his third birthday.
Lon StricklerHOST
One evening, his cat was outside.
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