by Anthony Brown | Mar 1, 2013 | NEWS ka-no-he-da
Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort announced on Friday, March 1 the appointment of Adele Jacobs-Madden as the new vice president of Finance. She joined the resort in 1999, first as the accounting manager, then as a participant in the Cherokee Development Program,...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 1, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
Tabled Res. No. 369 – $2 million from Endowment Fund #2 for Class III gaming facility in Cherokee Co. – Tabled Tabled Res. No. 435 – Cherokee Choices authorized to submit grant application to Cherokee Preservation Foundation for RTCAR in the amount of...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 1, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Almost 40 percent of American Indian women will be a victim of violence from an intimate partner during their lifetime according to the CDC. And, according to the 2010 Census, almost 60 percent of American Indian women are...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 28, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Caesar’s Entertainment, Inc. presented a $2 million check for the purchase and five-year operation of a MRI machine to the Cherokee Indian Hospital in October 2012. Now, just a few months later, the machine is in place and...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 28, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Two groups in Virginia that claim Cherokee heritage are seeking state-recognition in that state’s General Assembly. The Appalachian Cherokee Nation of Virginia and the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Inc., aka...
by Anthony Brown | Feb 27, 2013 | Front Page, NEWS ka-no-he-da
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Heavy machinery and dump trucks are in full swing at the site of a January landslide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that has closed US 441 connecting Cherokee to Gatlinburg, Tenn. Phillips & Jordan, Inc.,...