COMMENTARY: Honesty is the best media policy.

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   I recently read a headline that reminded me of how incredibly corrupt some “news” organizations are. Yes. News companies. Corruption. News media are supposed to be keepers of the public trust, guardians of truth, and the...

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...