by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF The aisles of Cherokee Food Lion were alive with the sounds of the Cherokee language being spoken on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 15. Students in the early childhood program at New Kituwah Academy practiced their...
by admin | Feb 10, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
By MARLON MORGAN WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY As director of Western Carolina University’s Cherokee Center, Sky Sampson is a liaison between the university and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. When Sampson learned that WCU chose Cherokee as its...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF The American Indian Movement (AIM) started in Minneapolis in 1968. Its message spread from that inner-city environment to reservations and throughout Indian Country like a wildfire in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers are recruiting volunteers to adopt a tree monitoring plot in areas throughout the park. Volunteers will collect information as part of an important research project tracking seasonal biological change called...
by admin | Feb 6, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR The Steve Youngdeer American Legion Post 143 Auxiliary hosted a “Creating Community Partnerships” luncheon at Post headquarters on Thursday, Feb. 2. Principal Chief Patrick Lambert and many other leaders in tribal...
by admin | Jan 26, 2017 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Earlier this month, students in a first grade class at New Kituwah Academy received a letter from a very special person. President Barack Obama, then still in office, answered letters they sent him several months...