EDITORIAL: Absolute service perfects absolutely

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   A friend of mine related a random act of kindness involving one of our NRE Officers. My friend said that the officer spotted a homeless woman sitting outside of an establishment in Cherokee. The lady had been sitting...

COMMENTARY: Are you ready for some football?

Observations and random thoughts. Volume 25.1.   By WILLIAM LEDFORD   I pride myself on having an excellent sense of humor. Whether anyone else agrees is beside the point, opinions are like a certain point of anatomy, but I have to say this, I just don’t get...

EDITORIAL: A long way to go and a short time to get there

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   After many years of prioritizing and then putting to the back burner the need for an overhaul of the Cherokee Code, Tribal Council voted last month to assemble a committee to review and “clean up” the Code. This an...

EDITORIAL: A worthless employee?

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Stuart: “I am afraid you couldn’t be more wrong” Sheldon: “’More wrong?’ ‘Wrong’ is an absolute state and is not subject to gradation.” Stuart: “Of course it is. It is a little wrong to say that a tomato is a...

LETTER: Reader opposes Lumbee recognition efforts

  The Lumbee Tribe’s petition for federal status is a forest with no trees.  That group of non-profit organization people is not a historical native first nations tribal community.  Anyone supporting that lie should view all the documents I have that shows they...

EDITORIAL: Lip readers needed

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Roughly a year ago, I brought up the subject of public documents and the need to have accurate records of our Tribal Council sessions and truly any official government business that is conducted. The concerns began a...