COMMENTARY: Trauma resilience key to advocacy

COMMENTARY: Trauma resilience key to advocacy

By StrongHearts Native Helpline   How Advocates Help In the field of domestic and sexual violence, an advocate’s work bridges the gap between a victim-survivor and service providers. They help their contacts recognize abuse, assess the risk of danger and to plan...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: This world is not the same…

By TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Read 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 How many of us have realized this world we live in is not the same world in which we grew up?  If a person is real young, they might...
COMMENTARY: Is exclusion applied equally under law?

COMMENTARY: Is exclusion applied equally under law?

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   A powerful tribal law and sovereign right of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) is that of exclusion, more commonly referred to as banishment. More forceful than simple trespassing, an exclusion may include the...
COMMENTARY: Seeing Red      

COMMENTARY: Seeing Red      

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   How have you been? Have you avoided getting COVID-19? If you haven’t, did you recover? Do you have lasting effects? Was your encounter with the virus life-threatening or more like a cold or flu? The Eastern Band of Cherokee...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Pray, read and learn…

By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Continued…Read Psalm 112; Reread Acts 16:16-34; 2 Corinthians 11:24-33. Everyone has a purpose.  Pastor Tim, “How do I find my purpose?” A purpose will be...
COMMENTARY: Is exclusion applied equally under law?

COMMENTARY: A supporter of renaming EBCI

By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff   Writer’s note: this a response to a commentary written by Cyndi Lambert titled ‘What’s in a name? We should be the Eastern Cherokee Nation’ published on July 16. I agree that the name ‘Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ (EBCI)...