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...
by admin | May 20, 2024 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER Community members were confused. The tribe (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) announced that a pedestrian bridge was being installed in the area that many call the downtown business “horseshoe” in Cherokee, N.C. The bridge, proposed to cross...
by admin | May 17, 2024 | OPINIONS
By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed. D., excerpt from Preacher Spurs Christian Faith Publishers, 2022 I remember a song I often sang in church as a kid. It was, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”. Does anyone remember that one? It seems so long ago. I believe that...
by admin | May 13, 2024 | OPINIONS
By RAY MOOSE Mt. Pleasant, N.C. In 2001, Jenean Hornbuckle, an Eastern Band of Cherokee artist, and I were hired to produce a statue of Selu. Selu was the Cherokee mother of corn. My first step into the project was to read the Selu story. In the story, Selu and...
