by Anthony Brown | Feb 8, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR In January 2016, Tribal Council passed a law (Resolution No. 87) that did away with verbatim written documentation of Council sessions as a matter of course. In other words, the exact words of the Council no longer had...
by Anthony Brown | Jan 28, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR A quick search on Indeed.com, an employment research website, for “Native American Tribal Council”, “Native American Tribal Chief” and “Native American Vice-Chief”, results in annual average salary information of...
by Anthony Brown | Jan 19, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR There has been quite a stir recently over the proper place of the Tribal Court. We have had front row seats via cable and live stream during Tribal Council sessions to the debate over the powers of the different...
by Anthony Brown | Jan 11, 2016 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR I have never been a gloom and doom person. I do, however, believe that each of us would be crazy not to see the signs that our world, and in some cases, our local communities are becoming more dangerous places to be....
by Anthony Brown | Jan 4, 2016 | OPINIONS
By WILLIAM LEDFORD PART ONE (Part Two will be published next week) It’s 2016 and if you’re reading this, congratulations, you survived the Christmas dinner and the New Year’s Eve parties. And…you’re back at work. And…you’re looking at your bank statement...
by Anthony Brown | Dec 14, 2015 | OPINIONS
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR It has been an eventful year. The most significant of which for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was the election of a new principal chief after 12 years, three consecutive terms, under a single administration. In...
