Cherokee Heritage Center

Beautiful day to visit this amazing place! My daughter and I took advantage of the opportunity to come to Tahlequah today and celebrate Native American Heritage month. Visiting the exhibits in the Cherokee National Museum are both heartbreaking (Trail Of Tears) and inspiring (all the rest ). We learned a lot of facts that even though I grew up in Tahlequah I did not know. Please please please take the time someday to make this memory a part of your life!

Worth the visit. Clean park, impressive exhibits and knowledgeable staff. You will definitely feel enriched if you take the time to read the exhibits and listen to the tour guides.

I enjoy museums and having studied anthropology, I'm always interested in other cultures. This place is nice but it still needs some work. They have a museum, and the displays are good but they only concern the Trail of Tears. That's something that I do feel everyone should know about but it would have been nice to broaden the museum to other aspects of the Cherokee life.Outside there are two different areas. One is set up as a rustic town, much like the Cherokees would have been living in after the white people moved in. The other is set up to be an authentic Cherokee village pre-invasion period. The town is nice and quite interesting. We had a good time going through it. The village, however, was a huge disappointment. The tours were only being conducted on the hour and we had just missed the last one. Rather than wait for the next tour (a 50 minute wait in 90+ degrees), we decided to just walk around on our own. We were stopped and told that we could not do that.I paid my money to visit the museum and village but did not get to experience all of it. We were not told that we could ONLY visit the village as part of the tour. I don't see any reason why it's okay to wander on your own through the town but not through the village. Whoever is in charge of this place needs to pull their head out of their butt and get with it. I probably won't return to this place. It's a fairly long drive from Tulsa and I could spend my time doing better things. If they ever fix it up to where I can view it at my own pace, then maybe. As it stands, it's just not worth the effort.

I am Native American as well and I love checking out other cultural centers to see how other tribes live. This place was beautiful, very green and totally away from town. I was not able to tour the whole thing, we mainly looked around for bit and shopped at the gift shop. We were short on time. I would like to definitely go back and do the whole thing. All of it looked very interesting. I seen there was a village and other scenes set up to show how they used to live. The gift shop had tons a nice things, I bought shirts and small baskets for my family.

Go get some necessary history nestled in a quiet corner of our world. Hidden gem.

I've been here twice. This is a modern, informative presentation of Cherokee history. They have both an indoor museum and an outdoor reconstructed early Cherokee village through which they give guided tours. Well worth seeing!

I hadn't been here in a lot of years and decided to bring my son here to get a little taste of his heritage. I grew up in the Cherokee Nation, but moved the family away a long time ago. I have to say, I was blown away. The Trail of Tears exhibit was powerful enough for tears. And the guided tour of the updated Diligwa was as much comedy as it was true and accurate historical information. The Cherokee gent who guided us was brilliant. Could go on tour and be hilarious anywhere, but decides to spend his time educating our people instead. If you are Cherokee or even curious about our people, do NOT miss this if you're in town. The facilities are world class and completely unique, but it's the staff who make it worth the trip.

Only had time for the museum shop and the guided tour of the Diligwa but found both to be worth our effort to get there. The guide was knowledgeable and enthusiastic.