by Anthony Brown | Sep 7, 2016 | OPINIONS
Observations and random thoughts. Volume ElevenPointTwo. By WILLIAM LEDFORD Sometimes these days, with the swirl, and crime, of the Olympics, the running joke that is called NFL Pre-season, exorbitant contracts for professional athletes, white collar...
by Anthony Brown | Sep 5, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR Less than a month to go and we will be celebrating a century’s old tradition. The dates for this year’s Cherokee Indian Fair are Oct. 4-8. Certainly, the Cherokee people have been having harvest celebrations long...
by Anthony Brown | Aug 29, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER STAFF The Qualla Boundary has been a tourist attraction since before the 1950s when it became our primary source of income. Our land and people have been the object of curiosity seekers for decades, even as much as a century....
by Anthony Brown | Aug 23, 2016 | OPINIONS
To the Editor, I’m a member of the Eastern Band from Cherokee County and looked forward to the coming of the Casino (Harrah’s River Valley) to Murphy. I retired as a carpenter, but made very little on Social Security, and wanted to work a few more years. I took...
by Anthony Brown | Aug 23, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR Media bias…in national and regional media, the practice of providing commentary as news has become an everyday occurrence. The “liberal” press will accuse the “conservative” media of slanting or spinning stories...
by Anthony Brown | Aug 15, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR “She’d always wanted me to marry a white woman and beget half-breed children who would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in...