GUEST COMMENTARY: Missing the Christ of Christmas
Pastor Nick Smith A familiar decoration at Christmas is the Nativity Scene. Some people adorn their homes with small statues or their yards with large illumined figures of the Nativity. We know the characters all too well. There is Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the wise men, angels, and, of course, the baby Jesus. All of these individuals More...
COMMENTARY: Cherokee’s young people need varied music shows
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF My wife and I recently watched a short documentary on YouTube entitled “Metal from the Dirt” which covered a fledging, and growing, metal band scene on the More...
EDITORIAL: Familiarity breeds contempt
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR I was watching the live feed of Tribal Council and again some of the official video archives of different sessions of government workings, and I came away a More...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tribal member addresses housing issues
We will soon be the proud recipients of a tribal government that has, for the first time in our people’s history, decided to use tribal resources to directly benefit people who aren’t even citizens of More...
EDITORIAL: Adding value to the language
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR Getting youth engaged in the Cherokee language can be challenging. Our young people are smart, energetic and purposeful. From early ages, our kids will challenge More...
COMMENTARY: Rep. Meadows’ reprimand should cause local reflection
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF Our congressional representative in congress, Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) was recently reprimanded by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee over how he chose to respond More...
EDITORIAL: A double-edged sword
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR The EBCI tribal government recently announced the long-standing practice of random drug testing of tribal employees had been researched and found to be a violation More...
COMMENTARY: Tribe needs to allow media access, all access
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF People often make the mistake of assuming that government control of the media consists solely of trying to censor the paper. It’s much more than that, and they More...
COMMENTARY: Elections and their operations due for upgrades
By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF With what has happened with this year’s midterms, in Florida, in North Dakota, in Georgia, where issues of voter suppression, provisional ballots, recounts and More...
EDITORIAL: A crisis of credibility
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR 2015 – “Officially confirming the fourth estate to the framework of our government is an important exercise in tribal sovereignty and self-governance. More...