by admin | May 29, 2024 | OPINIONS
Submitted by STRONGHEARTS NATIVE HELPLINE EAGAN, Minn. – During June, Pride Month celebrates the 2SLGBTQ+ community’s achievements and advocates for equal rights and community acceptance. It’s also a time to remember a people known as “Two-Spirits,” who...
by admin | May 28, 2024 | OPINIONS
By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed. D., excerpt from Preacher Spurs Christian Faith Publishers, 2022 We are to love our God. And we love with our human ability to love. God loves us, but He loves us with His Godly love that we cannot match. What a friend we have in Jesus....
by admin | May 22, 2024 | OPINIONS
By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed. D., excerpt from Preacher Spurs Christian Faith Publishers, 2022 Not to brag, but I can cast off a Facebook friend and ‘Unfriend’ somebody in a heartbeat. That does not bother me in the least bit. I do not know them, and I...
by admin | May 22, 2024 | OPINIONS
By BROOKLYN BROWN Tsisgwohi (Birdtown) In activism, you often hear the term “voice.” You hear the saying, “give a voice to the voiceless.” What is a voice? What does it mean to lend a voice? Ecclesiastes 3:7 says there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to...
by admin | May 22, 2024 | OPINIONS
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. Aniwodihi (Painttown) Cannabis has been debated by the tribal government of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) for going on a decade now. EBCI voters voted overwhelmingly for a referendum in September 2023 approving adult-use...
by admin | May 22, 2024 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C. I rarely do this, but I think we have come to an appropriate time. I have watched as some have commented on “investigative reporting” and why we don’t do more of it. They imply that either there is a lack of...