by Anthony Brown | Feb 27, 2013 | Front Page, OPINIONS
Click below to read an op/ed piece entitled Rape on the Reservation by American Indian author Louise Erdrich that appeared online at the New York Times website yesterday. The piece is on the need to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act....
by Anthony Brown | Feb 26, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
The Cherokee Phoenix newspaper was first published on Feb. 21, 1828 and celebrated its 185th Anniversary last Thursday. The Hunter Library at Western Carolina University has digital collections of some of these early...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 26, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that the 9,008,830 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park spent $818 million in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 11,732 jobs in the local area. “Visitors from across the U.S. come to...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 26, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6pm – Birdtown Community Meeting Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 5:30pm – Cherokee County Community (Special Called Meeting) Thursday, Feb. 28 at 6pm – Big Y Community (Special Called Meeting) Thursday, Feb. 28 at 6pm – Big Cove Community Monday, March 4...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 25, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
Ladybird Powell has pleaded guilty to several charges, including involuntary manslaughter, in the 2011 death of her 15-month-old niece Aubrey Littlejohn. Powell made her plea in Swain Superior Court on Monday, Feb. 18, and was sentenced to at least nine years in...
