COMMENTARY: It’s past time to listen to women
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF Me too, meet not me. Not me has now been twice nominated to the Supreme Court, and not me clearly has an ear with the White House. From watching the news, one would think it is 1991 again. The saga is familiar: a Supreme Court Justice nominee accused of sexual impropriety (assault this time as opposed More...
EDITORIAL: Let that be your last silo.
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR A silo can be a great thing if you are a farmer. Back in the day, silos were tall, slender storage buildings used to hold grain, usually for the winter. It is how More...
COMMENTARY: Chief Sneed responds to Post article about Lumbees
By PRINCIPAL CHIEF RICHARD G. SNEED The Washington Post Magazine article, “What Makes Someone Native American? One tribe’s long struggle for full recognition”, misrepresents the views of More...
LETTER: Suggestion for syringe issue
We all agree there are used syringes out in the community, and we are getting kiosks. Why couldn’t we have a program that required the people incarcerated from drug charges to go out in the community More...
EDITORIAL: The people take a step forward
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR It was a good day in Tribal Council yesterday (Thursday, Sept. 6) for the press and the people. Your right to free speech was endorsed by your legislature in the More...
COMMENTARY: Keep the information flowing
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF Tribal Code defines what is and isn’t public information. The purpose of the law is important. “The Tribe finds that it is vital in a democratic society that More...
COMMENTARY: Trump and Metamucil…
Observations and random thoughts Volume 2018 1.7 By WILLIAM LEDFORD We’ve lost two giants in the last couple of weeks as both Aretha Franklin, “The Queen of Soul”, and Senator John McCain have More...
LETTER: Tribal member supports community policing
New officers that are taught bad culture or habits by others that was taught to them isn’t good. Getting out of a patrol vehicle to do foot patrol is part of the job. It’s called community policing. More...
EDITORIAL: Lurking in the parking lot
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR “It’s 10:00. Do you know where your children are?” In 1967 and running through the late 1980s, a media campaign asked this question of parents as high crime More...
COMMENTARY: Sen. McCain’s service is something we all should strive to mirror
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF “Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here,” said the late Sen. More...