LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hospital employee retiring

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hospital employee retiring

  To the Cherokee Community, On May 6, I’ll be retired from the PT department of the Cherokee Hospital, and want to say so long and see you later, since there won’t be the opportunity to tell everyone in person. It has been a great pleasure to work for the...

COMMENTARY: Don’t let yourself be silenced.

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   At the end of the Tribal Council session on May 5, time they typically reserve for banishments, a representative requested additional legislation to address a temporary banishment of an individual from tribal lands. As...

COMMENTARY: Order in the Court

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Silence can be deceptive. If you are sitting in a courtroom, like I was last week, you can get the feeling that justice is delivered at a snail’s pace. The gallery is only engaged in the activities of the court by...

COMMENTARY: “My Truth”

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   I was listening to a recent session of Tribal Council in which it was stated that the person speaking was there to tell “my truth”. The inference from that statement (my opinion only) is that truth is situational. And...