by admin | Feb 11, 2025 | OPINIONS
By BROOKLYN BROWN Tsisqwohi (Birdtown) My favorite fruit is ani (strawberry), partly because I enjoy them and I grew up with Strawberry Shortcake (the cartoon and the dessert), but mainly because of the Cherokee Legend of the First Strawberry that I first heard...
by admin | Feb 10, 2025 | OPINIONS
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Asst. Editor A State of Emergency for the Cherokee language was declared in Tri-Council, a meeting of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, on June 27, 2019. Roger Smoker, an elder of the Eastern Band of...
by admin | Feb 4, 2025 | OPINIONS
By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed.D. (author of “Preacher Spurs”, Christian Faith Publishing, Meadville, Pa., 2022) Scripture references: John 5:39-40, 1 John 5:11-12, Matthew 11:2-5, Galatians 2:21, John 3:18, John 9:40-41, John 10:24-25, John 10:31-33, John 14:6-7 The...
by admin | Feb 4, 2025 | OPINIONS
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Asst. Editor On a chilly evening in Tsisqwohi (Birdtown), people begin filing into the Peaches Squirrell Sports & Recreation Complex, and they hear a familiar voice on the microphone. Catcuce Tiger, a member of the Eastern...
by admin | Jan 31, 2025 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C. Since (I am assuming) most of you don’t read the One Feather while at the dinner table, I think we are safe to discuss a less-than-appetizing topic. I have written many commentaries on the unsanitary situation...
by admin | Jan 30, 2025 | OPINIONS
By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed.D. (author of “Preacher Spurs”, Christian Faith Publishing, Meadville, Pa., 2022) “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him, the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God. Now it is God...