COMMENTARY: Pride for Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Community

COMMENTARY: Pride for Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Community

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...
COMMENTARY: Voices

COMMENTARY: Voices

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...
COMMENTARY: Approving adult-use cannabis is common sense

COMMENTARY: Approving adult-use cannabis is common sense

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...

COMMENTARY: Those who can, do.

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...