COMMENTARY: We need to be more like Dave.

by | Jun 25, 2024 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C.   Dave Russell is my counterpart at The Sylva Herald and Ruralite. We have a dandy working relationship with the Herald and it sounds like he and I share some commonalities when it comes to managing and...

COMMENTARY – MMIW Profile: The Trail of Tears

by | Jun 25, 2024 | OPINIONS

By BROOKLYN BROWN Tsisgwohi (Birdtown)   The 2024 Remember the Removal (RTR) riders just concluded their 950-mile trek from New Echota, Georgia, to Tahlequah, Okla., tracing the northern route of the Indian Removal, also known as the Trail of Tears. Riders from...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Works

by | Jun 24, 2024 | OPINIONS

By Lamont H. Fuchs, Ed. D., excerpt from “Preacher Spurs”, Christian Faith Publishers, 2022   Scripture References: James 2:16, 5:16, 1 John 1:9, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 Corinthians 15:58 Let’s get this ‘works’ issue out of the way. If you...
COMMENTARY: A lick and a promise

COMMENTARY: A lick and a promise

by | Jun 19, 2024 | OPINIONS

By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C.   Reactionary anything is a gamble. Reactionary governance is dangerous. You and I, as tribal members, have given lip service to the development of a constitution for decades. The most recent effort was six years...