COMMENTARY: Why has courtesy become so uncommon?

by | Jan 24, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Patience. It is a virtue indeed. And, like me, I am sure you all could use a good dose of it. Pardon me for being rude, but we have become a society of, if not community of, discourteous people. Don’t believe me? Get...

COMMENTARY: Financial illiteracy on the Boundary

by | Jan 24, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff   I was amongst the last groups of EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians )kids that received their ‘big money’ in one lump sum. I had just graduated high school and was told the best thing to do would be to cash the...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: What is your mission?

by | Jan 21, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   “Father, I pray that every door that needs to be closed, is closed, that we might know clearly the avenues of the past in which we must walk to...

COMMENTARY: Party affiliation

by | Jan 21, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By MARY HERR Yellowhill Community   In recent years, a number of us have been doing voter registration in Cherokee for county, state and national elections with more success in some years than others.   It is very important that Cherokees vote in these...

COMMENTARY: Cultural Preservation

by | Jan 17, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   There has been much talk in our community, particularly in our government, concerning cultural and historical preservation. Yes, much talk. But talk is cheap, at least that is what P.T. Barnum said back in the 1850’s...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: What’s needed is all of each of us.

by | Jan 15, 2022 | OPINIONS

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELVIN, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   The Lord has placed in my heart for the year 2022 that this shall be a year of  soul-winning for this church.  Amen.  I believe the Lord is coming...