COMMENTARY: New Cherokee Blood

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   During the February session of Tribal Council, the Council decided that the language of the resolution proposed to ask the people to decide on extended terms, term limits and staggered terms was tabled, after being...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: He has already equipped each one

  By TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   When you say, “I’m little.  I don’t know enough.  I don’t know a lot.”  With your permission, God can still use what He has already given you.  Choosing to...

COMMENTARY: Tiptoeing through banishments

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   During Budget Council on Feb. 1, Tribal Council engaged in a discussion of banishment law. They talked about how hard it would be to banish a tribal member because, in our Cherokee Code, it has been made clear that any...

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...