The land has been held by the government for a few decades, but Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) has been working on getting it back in the hands of the Cherokee tribe.

when the Tennessee Valley Authority initiated construction on a dam on the Little Tennessee River, some 20 miles southwest of Knoxville. Environmentalists, local farmers and the Cherokee ...

went snorkeling with students in the Little Tennessee River at Coytee Spring, not far from Tellico. There, they found a fish on the river bottom that Etnier said he had never seen before ...

Hill. The court upheld the newly passed Endangered Species Act at the request of conservationists and others who sought to protect the fish and its last free-flowing habitat in the Little Tennessee ...

Hill. The court upheld the newly passed Endangered Species Act at the request of conservationists, farmers, and the Cherokee Tribe, who sought to protect the fish and its free-flowing habitat in the ...

As the Great River Road follows the Mississippi River is passes through Tennessee, it meanders through similar rural territory that you'll find in Kentucky and is punctuated with one of the most ...