Cultural Heritage Week held at CES

  Cherokee Elementary School celebrated its annual Cultural Heritage Week from April 4-8.   Every year, students are given the opportunity to meet local artists, invoke the Cherokee language in a non-classroom setting, and learn about Cherokee Culture in a fun...

Sequoyah Fund – 2015 Year-in-Review

  By RUSS SEAGLE   2015 was an exciting year for Sequoyah Fund. It was also a year full of change. Since Sequoyah Fund was incorporated in 1998, we have operated largely as a nonprofit that also did some commercial lending. Given the legal, regulatory,...

133-year-old newspaper donated to Museum

  Joel Nelson, owner of a Civil War shop in Chickamauga, Ga., and his wife, Martha, planned a trip to Cherokee for this week.  Before he left home, he purchased a copy of The Cherokee Advocate, dated Jan. 1, 1883, from eBay.  He had asked the seller to make sure...

Cherokee students win at Heard Art Show

  By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF   The Heard Museum, located in Phoenix, Ariz., is known for its collections of outstanding American Indian art and their features of legendary artists.  The artwork, in various mediums, of several Cherokee High School...