COMMENTARY: Selling our culture

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Cultural appropriation. From the tomahawk chop to the Jeep Cherokee to car dealership, cigar shop style Indian statues towering over a heavily trafficked road, it is interwoven into American society. Some Indigenous...

COMMENTARY: Why has courtesy become so uncommon?

  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 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 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...