by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | OBITUARIES
Tina Diane Farmer, 45, of Cullowhee, passed away Wednesday morning, Aug. 23, 2023. A native and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, she was the daughter of Diana Queen Van Etten of Cullowhee and the late Roger Van Etten. A 5th Grade teacher for the Cherokee...
by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | OBITUARIES
Homer Lee Thompson, age 36, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. He is survived by his mother, Anita Swimmer Thompson; sister, Ada Ducky Thompson; niece, Addi Me-Li Taylor; nephew, Calvin Wilson Taylor; and his special family and friends,...
by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | OPINIONS
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Asst. Editor CHEROKEE, N.C. – Last evening, I uploaded a photo I took of men of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) playing stickball during the Annual Kituwah Celebration in June. That photo was almost immediately...
by admin | Aug 22, 2023 | NEWS ka-no-he-da
GATLINBURG, Tenn.— A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 12.9 million visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2022 spent $2.1 billion in communities near the park. That spending supported 32,590 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative...
by admin | Aug 21, 2023 | OBITUARIES
Francis Frank Marion Blythe Jr., 82, of Lincoln, died on July 21, 2023. Frank was destined to be one of Indian Country’s foremost storytellers. He was born in Pipestone, Minn. where his Eastern Cherokee father and Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota mother made their home. This...
