COMMENTARY: Excuse me, are you sitting in my seat?

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Yes. Tis the season when I nag you about voting. You do realize that there is a tribal primary going on, right? And three of the six communities have enough candidates to participate in the primary. My community only...

COMMENTARY: Please continue to take it outside

  By ANGELA LEWIS   The Center of Disease Control changed the guidelines on Thursday, May 14 for wearing masks indoors to say that fully vaccinated individuals no longer have to wear masks indoors in most places. Rumors immediately began circulating...

COMMENTARY: Respect our language.  Respect our elders.

  Per ANIKANOHESGI.com “A platform for contemporary Native American Writers to share their thoughts and ideas”   As I look at the various issues at hand regarding language revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), the sense of dread...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Obtaining the Glory of God is key now

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Read 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17; Psalm 3:3; Luke 2:14; Colossians 1:27; Isaiah 60:1; John 11:40; Ephesians 4:11-12; Philippians 4:19-20, on the Glory. “We...

COMMENTARY: Money for nothing and your shots for free.

  By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   Across the country and on the Qualla Boundary, we are seeing a slow down in visitors to vaccination clinics. One of the statements that is starting to pop up in governmental media updates is that those who wanted to...