by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | OPINIONS
By DENISE L. BALLARD Tsisgwohi (Birdtown) After reading Robert Jumper’s commentary: Irons in the fire, I feel the need to comment on the Tribal Council work session regarding Tsali Care Center. I attended the meeting on Aug. 8, and I appreciate Chief Hicks and...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | CIPD Arrest Report
The following people were arrested by the Cherokee Indian Police Department and booked into the Anthony Edward Lossiah Justice Center. It should be noted that the following defendants have only been charged with the crimes listed and should be presumed innocent until...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | OBITUARIES
Diane McElreath Brown, 78, entered heaven under the noonday sun, covered by the prayer of her #5 son, Daniel “Nunu” Brown, and her #3 son, Buzzy Brown, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, in Tsisgwohi (Birdtown). She is dancing before the Lord with her father and mother,...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C. Running a government providing services for 16,000 constituents must be a daunting task, to say the least. And to that the stress of administering a conjectured an approximate $300 million budget and you might...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | NEWS ka-no-he-da
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Ernest D. Pheasant, Sr., 47, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), pleaded guilty on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 to first-degree murder in Indian Country, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina....
