LETTER: Tribal member upset with media ban

  Dear Editor: On April 5, the vote taken in Tribal Council to ban all outside media is quite disturbing; all council members voted for the ban except for one.  With that action, every one of us had our constitutional rights violated.  Our right to a free press...

EDITORIAL: The natural attraction of Cherokee

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   It is easy to take the place you live for granted. I have lived in the mountains of western North Carolina most of my life. As a good friend and former coworker used to say, I have fished these streams and walked these...

EDITORIAL: Freedom of speech takes a step backward

  By CHEROKEE ONE FEATHER EDITORIAL BOARD   The cause of a free and open press took a hit last week, albeit a symbolic one, in the Tribal Council Chambers on Thursday, April 5. A member of the press, Holly Kays from The Smoky Mountain News, was directed to...

Tribal member gets candid about election experiences

  Note: One Feather staff sat down recently with Mary “Missy” Crowe, an EBCI tribal member from the Yellowhill Community, who wished to express her thoughts and experiences with the tribal election process.  This is a transcription of that discussion. The One...