COMMENTARY: Child grooming through entertainment

(Editor’s Note: This commentary was received on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.  Due to the One Feather policy of only publishing one commentary per reader per month, it is being published online now and will appear in the Jan. 11, 2024 print issue.)   By ANN COGGINS...

COMMENTARY: Count your blessings

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   I resisted writing this for as long as I could. I argued with myself that is would be too sappy and that not everyone shares my belief system. Then I thought, some things are universal like love and peace, and the...

Faith Commentary: Are you saved?

By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed.D.   The nineteenth-century English scholar, Bishop B.F. Westcott, was a regius professor of divinity at Cambridge University. On one occasion, he was approached by a zealous undergraduate who asked him, “Are you saved?” “Ah,” said the...
COMMENTARY: This isn’t love

COMMENTARY: This isn’t love

By BROOKLYN BROWN One Feather Reporter   On the Dec. 12, 2023, Cherokee Court Domestic Violence docket, nine defendants were being charged with criminal domestic and dating violence, another 19 defendants were there to answer civil domestic violence charges. 28...

COMMENTARY: Fairgoer objects to Pretty Legs

By ANN COGGINS Big Y Community   You may be wondering why I would wait so long to write a commentary about the Fair. I wanted to give the new Tribal government time to get things settled from the past year and for the Executive Office to fill the Secretary...

COMMENTARY: The future of tribal freedom of speech

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   The craziness of the holiday season is upon us. Here at the Tribe, everyone starts gearing up for gearing down around this time. Everyone knows that it is time to line up all those projects that can be processed and...