COMMENTARY: Your freedom hinges on freedom of speech

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    When the One Feather was created, a group of community leaders determined that the Tribe should have a way to put out information from the government in mass production so that decisions made by the government were...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Trust in God and stay close to him 

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH    Read Daniel 6:1-28; Mark 4:35-36 “There is now a concerted effort to stop the Church, using the pandemic as an obstruction or an excuse. It can be held also by governments, or...

COMMENTARY: The Squeaky wheel gets the grease…

  By COL. JOE BURANOSKY (USMC RET.) WHITTIER, N.C.    One of the most important things we can do as citizens of this region is to support our community.  The 2020 Census is in process and the self-response phase has been extended until Sept. 30; our response...

COMMENTARY: We have all been here before….

  Observations and random thoughts.  By WILLIAM LEDFORD                 I’ve watched the highlights of both Democrat and Republican conventions and the contrast is truly amazing. When speaking about the coronavirus one side discussed the effects of the virus on...

COMMENTARY: Don’t move rocks in tribal, park waterways

  By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF   I drive by the Oconaluftee River, on the Qualla Boundary, multiple times daily and I frequently take walks on the Oconaluftee River Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  It seems that as tourism...