Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Native American museum in Cherokee, North Carolina.

The Museum of the Cherokee People, renamed in 2023, is a museum in Cherokee, North Carolina, with a permanent exhibition that follows Cherokee history chronologically from settlement of tribal territories to the 1762 Cherokee-British delegations. Displays cover stone tools, Cherokee pipes, game stones, and a model of an ancient burial, and present figures such as Sequoyah and Nancy Ward.

Founded in 1948 by the Eastern Band of Cherokee in a log cabin that also housed McLeans Indian Store and the Ocona Lufty Inn, the museum became its own entity after being operated by the Cherokee Historical Association. A major renovation in 2023 preceded its renaming from Museum of the Cherokee Indian to Museum of the Cherokee People in October 2023, clarifying that the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes are one people.

The 2023 renaming to Museum of the Cherokee People reflects the museum's link to three federally recognized tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, and the United Keetoowah Band and Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Exhibits name the seven surviving clans — Wolf, Deer, Bird, Blue, Longhair, Wild Potato and Paint — and profile figures such as Sequoyah and Nancy Ward.

The museum sits in the town of Cherokee, North Carolina, near the Oconaluftee River valley at the gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The self-guided route runs chronologically from early settlement to the 1762 Cherokee-British delegations, ending at the museum store. Allow time for the galleries and the shop; the store carries literature and souvenirs.

The Cherokee Potters Guild was formed in January 2003 after a series of workshops held at the museum, and folklorist Barbara R. Duncan was employed there to research Cherokee legends, myths and family stories, published in "Living Stories of the Cherokee" (1998). The museum also hosts the annual Cherokee Voices Festival and Festival of Native Peoples.