COMMENTARY: Beware of men in suits

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR    Speaking with many of our traditionalists and elders, you may certainly understand why many Natives are wary of those wearing suits. It is a hold over from the days of forced exodus and military domination of...

COMMENTARY: To own or not to own…

  By WILLIAM LEDFORD    Observations and random thoughts.    It’s been a turbulent couple of weeks in our country. We have a new President of the United States who has been officially inaugurated and sworn in. We have a Senate that’s divided 50-50 but...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: The choice is of and by the people

  REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH    Read Isaiah 45:1-25  (God’s Declaration of His Anointing of Cyrus, Concerning Israel) “Why do the heathen rage?” (is asked of the world in Psalm 2).   Could it be, we might lose our...

COMMENTARY: In no uncertain terms

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    Sometimes out of sight is truly out of mind. This certainly seems to be the case with the push to establish or re-establish an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians governing constitution.  Just a few years ago, a...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Anger with boundaries of forgiveness

By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH    Read Proverbs 25:28 We must each learn how to best deal with the volatile emotion of anger which can arise in just our daily living together on this Earth.  Frictions do occur for each person...