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Sacred land returned to North Carolina Cherokee Indians after 200 years

Sacred land returned to North Carolina Cherokee Indians after 200 years

The tribe’s ancestors built the Noquisiyi Mound roughly 1,000 years ago. Jordan Oocumma grew up hearing stories of the mound. His grandparents imbued his childhood with tales about the strip of land at the center of a Cherokee town built by their ancestors more than 1,000 years ago. But for about two centuries, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians — the federally recognized tribe with ancestral...

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