Nolan Arkansas, an EBCI tribal member and senior at Cherokee High School, has been accepted to two of the most prestigious universities in the country.  Now, he just has to decide whether to attend Yale University in New Haven, Conn. or Stanford University in California. 

The 2018 AISES Leadership Summit held recently in Alpine, Calif. included representatives from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians including: Michael Thompson, Kayla Johnson, Shana Lambert, Tonya Carroll, Tara McCoy, Savannah Hicks, and Cherokee Nation member Alicia Jacobs.

Cherokee High School Honor Rolls – 3rd Quarter

For quarter one of 2018, employees at Harrah’s Cherokee Casinos made a strong start to the year by accumulating a total of 27,056 service hours through the companies’ employee community outreach program,

In late February, I traveled to Oklahoma as the Native American ToothFairy for my Dreamstarter Project.

The principal of Cherokee High School recently hit the pinnacle of educational achievement, but she is by no means finished with her education and learning.  Debora Foerst defended her disquisition successfully on Wednesday, March 21 and will have her doctorate in education (EdD) degree conferred upon her from Western Carolina University in May. 

The Purple Warrior Foundation, founded in 2013 by former Miss Cherokee Taylor Wilnoty, started as an avenue to help educate EBCI tribal members about Epilepsy. 

For the first time in the school’s history, the New Kituwah Academy will be represented at the North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair.