COMMENTARY: Sgili Season

COMMENTARY: Sgili Season

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   So, one of the things my staff has told me about our offices is that we have a ghost. No foolin’. They tell me that there was an apparition that sometimes stood at or near the door of my office. I say stood because I have...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Great Cloud of Witnesses by Faith

By TIMOTHY L. MELTON Pastor of Cherokee Pentecostal Church Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate   Reference: Hebrews 12:1-39, Hebrews 11:1-40 Moses was sent to a world leader. He was a stutterer, sent to do one thing, and that was to speak to Pharaoh of Egypt. One does...
COMMENTARY: Be an influencer.

COMMENTARY: Be an influencer.

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   There are those of us who are gung-ho about exercising our rights, especially the right to vote, to the fullest. Especially when it comes to tribal elections, because in the EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) Charter...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Change of Address

By LAMONT H. FUCHS, Ed.D.   “Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.”-Billy Graham, 2018. Much of...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: An encouraging word

By TIMOTHY L. MELTON Pastor, Cherokee Pentecostal Church Transcribed by Myra Colgate   References: Isaiah 43:1-7, Isaiah 42:23-25 Father, I pray that you would speak a powerful word. To those reading this somewhere today in this world that they might know you...

COMMENTARY: Making the language a priority

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   What is your interest in the Cherokee language? And before we get into our typical race debate, because when decidedly Cherokee issues are discussed, there are those amongst us who get our hackles up when a non-Indian decides...