OBITUARY: April Dawn Bird

OBITUARY: April Dawn Bird

April Dawn Bird, 44, of the Painttown Community in Cherokee, N.C., passed away unexpectedly on Friday, June 2, 2023 at her residence in Cherokee. April was the daughter of the late Emerson Bird and Debbie Burrell. She was a past employee of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino...
EBCI tribal members featured in new documentary

EBCI tribal members featured in new documentary

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. – What happens when storytelling, native wisdom, and nature’s intelligence converge?  That’s what a new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker David Weintraub and the Center for Cultural Preservation seek to explore in “Nature’s Wisdom...