2024-25 Little Miss Cherokee Faith Panther, center, reacts as she’s crowned during the pageant held in Cherokee, N.C. on Oct. 2, 2024. She is shown with 2023-24 Little Miss Cherokee Rhiannon Postoak, left, and Jais Crusenberry, one of the pageant coordinators. (BROOKLYN BROWN/One Feather photo)
2024-25 Little Miss Cherokee Faith Panther and 2024-25 Junior Miss Cherokee Misha Slee sing the Cherokee National Anthem at the first annual Tsalagi Aniwonisgi Didanvdadisdi (Cherokee Speakers Memorial Day) event which was hosted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 26 at the Kalvgviditsa Tsalagi Aniwonisgi Tsunatsohisdihi (Cherokee Speakers Place), located adjacent to the New Kituwah Academy in Cherokee, N.C. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather photo)
2024-25 Little Miss Cherokee Faith Panther waves to the crowd in the Cherokee Christmas Parade in Cherokee, N.C. on Dec. 14, 2024. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather photo)
2024-25 Little Miss Cherokee Faith Panther dances at the Cherokee Winter Social at the Peaches Squirrell Sports & Recreation Complex in Cherokee, N.C. on Jan. 25, 2025. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather photo)