COMMENTARY: Keep the information flowing

  By JOSEPH MARTIN ONE FEATHER STAFF   Tribal Code defines what is and isn’t public information. The purpose of the law is important. “The Tribe finds that it is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner....

COMMENTARY: Trump and Metamucil…

Observations and random thoughts Volume 2018 1.7   By WILLIAM LEDFORD   We’ve lost two giants in the last couple of weeks as both Aretha Franklin, “The Queen of Soul”, and Senator John McCain have both walked on. Both are the kind of people that only pass...

LETTER: Tribal member supports community policing

  New officers that are taught bad culture or habits by others that was taught to them isn’t good.  Getting out of a patrol vehicle to do foot patrol is part of the job.  It’s called community policing.  Having officers eat their breakfast after our children have...

EDITORIAL: Lurking in the parking lot

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   “It’s 10:00. Do you know where your children are?” In 1967 and running through the late 1980s, a media campaign asked this question of parents as high crime rates resulted in concern and community-wide curfews around...

LETTER – Family had nice time in Cherokee

  Many members of my family visited us this summer. For a month, we had as many as four grandchildren and sometimes six. Thanks to all the good attractions and entertainment in Cherokee, our family had a wonderful time and wants to come back next year. Thanks for...