Seven years after it was first introduced and nearly 185 years after most of the Cherokee were forced west on the Trail of Tears, a bill seeking to return to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians more than 76 acres of sacred homeland in East Tennessee last week passed the U.S. House on a path its sponsor hopes takes it to President Joe Biden s desk.
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