COMMENTARY: COVID Tourism

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Since the early 1950s, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has depended on tourism in some form or fashion to be a sustaining economic community driver. The Tribe, for decades, was sustained by a combination of...

OBITUARY: John Robert Hornbuckle

  John Robert Hornbuckle, 37, of Cherokee, passed away unexpectedly at his residence on Thursday, July 30, 2020.  The son of the late Larry Robert Hornbuckle and the late Judith Ollie Roberts, he is preceded in death by his brother, Nathaniel Shinkman. John is...

CIPD Arrest Report for July 26 – Aug. 1, 2020

  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...

OBITUARY: Becky Ann Walker

  Becky Ann Walker transitioned from this life on Friday, July 31, 2020 at the age of 47. Becky was born into the Deer Clan July 9, 1973 in Cherokee (of Eastern and Western Cherokee and Lakota Sioux ancestry). Her spiritual beliefs followed traditional Cherokee...