COMMENTARY: Blind faith

COMMENTARY: Blind faith

by | Feb 2, 2023 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   We leave a bunch of our lives in the hands of others, so much so that we rarely question things like who is flying our commercial flight, our bus, our taxi or Uber. We don’t think much about the mental state of our pizza...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: How can they find each other?

by | Jan 28, 2023 | OPINIONS

By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Read: Genesis 22:1-19; Genesis 15:4; Isaiah 49:9-10; Hebrews 11:8-19 Continuation… “God is about to do something.”  In verse 9, they finally got to the place...
COMMENTARY: Faded and dilapidated

COMMENTARY: Faded and dilapidated

by | Jan 27, 2023 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Forward thinking. Progressive. Powerful. Great. Wise. Caring. Proud. Prosperous. All words used by one person or another to describe the people and lands of the Qualla Boundary. And, in many ways, we reflect all those words....

COMMENTARY: Don’t leave it to your loved ones.

by | Jan 21, 2023 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Every so often we have a week or two where the volume of obituaries we receive from our community and readership increases significantly. The past few weeks have been riddled with local people passing, both old and young....

COMMENTARY: Fueling the fire

by | Jan 11, 2023 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   There is a law on the books (the “books” being our Cherokee Code) that allows Tribal Council to shut off the cameras, streaming, and video feeds so that things can be said in the Chambers that are not seen nor heard by the...