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...