The Cherokee Central Schools (CCS) School Board met on the evening of May 14 at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. The meeting was called to order at 3:33 p.m. by Chairperson Jennifer Thompson.

On the morning of June 6, Dinilawigi (Tribal Council) voted unanimously to adopt Resolution No. 212 (2024), recognizing every Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving as Tsalagi Aniwonisgi Didanvdadisdi (Cherokee Speakers Memorial Day) to honor the lives of fluent Cherokee speakers who have passed.

Cherokee Tribal Bingo closed in 2020 due to COVID-19, and it never re-opened.  Now, officials of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) are looking to start the operation again. 

The smell of bean bread wafted through the air as the sounds of children laughing, Cherokee songs being sung, and men and boys playing stickball could be heard.  It was all at Kituwah, the Mother Town of the Cherokee. 

A total of 24 one-bedroom homes are being planned for a new HIP Community in Tsisqwohi (Birdtown).  Tribal leaders broke ground on the project on the afternoon of Friday, May 31. 

A sign for the Museum of the Cherokee People was taken down on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 29 in order to comply with an order from the Tribal Business Committee of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). 

Jessica “Jet” Calhoun, 29, and her daughter, Ah-Yo-Ka “Yoki Bear” Calhoun, 5, both members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), were tragically killed in a car wreck on Jan. 9, 2021.

Travis Climbingbear, 44, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and public safety course instructor at Cherokee High School (CHS), was arrested on Monday, May 13 by Cherokee Indian Police Department (CIPD).