COMMENTARY: Find your way back

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR    If you are from Cherokee, live in the area, or commute here to work, getting around is fairly easy. Then again, I have lived in these mountains the bulk of my life and I don’t know all the roads and places, the nooks...

COMMENTARY: Hiding in plain sight…maybe…

  Observations and random thoughts.  Series 2020, volume OnePointFour.   By WILLIAM LEDFORD    It’s sorta kinda official. Tupac Shakur is not dead, he’s alive and hiding somewhere on the Navajo Rez. That’s according to a filmmaker named Rick Boss. He...

COMMENTARY: Belly up to the breakfast bar

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR    With a bit of trepidation, the Tribal Council has passed legislation that allows alcohol sales on Sunday mornings in areas of the Boundary that currently may sell alcohol.  The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, in...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Holiness blesses beyond measure

  REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH   “Come close to God, and God will come close to you.  Wash your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.” James 4:8 (NLT) “Holiness...

COMMENTARY: What we see

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   I think Cherokee and the Qualla Boundary are some of the most extraordinary lands anywhere in the world. Millions of people each year come to our area to enjoy the great outdoors and some stop in to inquire about the...