by Anthony Brown | Mar 18, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
SYLVA – Long before he became Vice Chief for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Richard Sneed was working with young people. He served as an instructor at Cherokee High School for more than 11 years, and he was pastor at Christ Fellowship Church in...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 17, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
TARAN SWIMMER MISS CHEROKEE 2015 Si-yo, greetings, I would like to share with you all some of the activities and events that I have attended the month of February and the first part of March. I accompanied the Steve Youngdeer American Legion Post...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 16, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
Three local teens recently completed the Cherokee Youth Council program including Louwana Montelongo, Emily Welch and Hannah Ledford. Montelongo, the daughter of Missy Crowe and the late Manuel Montelongo, plans to attend Duke University to become a lawyer. ...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 14, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
SYLVA – For many years, Kenneth Haigler, an EBCI tribal member, helped students in Southwestern Community College’s radiography technology program learn and grow by supervising their clinical rotations at Swain Community Hospital. Though Haigler passed away...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 11, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
SYLVA – The Native American MENtoring Program (NAMP) at Southwestern Community College will present screenings of the award winning documentary “First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee” later this month. The first of these is set for...
by Anthony Brown | Mar 10, 2016 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
The State Employees Association of North Carolina will offer a total of 47 annual scholarships in 2016 for active SEANC members, their spouses and independent children. Scholarships also will be awarded by SEANC District 1, which includes Cherokee, Clay,...
