The National Native American Law Students Association (NNALSA) has announced its 2015 Board of Directors.

Pursuant to Cherokee Code (C.C.) section 150-5, the following Cherokee Administrative Rules are being published to inform the public of its adoption and implementation as an emergency rule in order to preserve the public health, safety and general welfare of the Tribe.

This is a calendar of meetings for Tribal Council for the month of November.

Tribal Council reversed a decision from a week earlier involving legal representation for those named in a lawsuit involving pay raises that occurred last fall.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will join hundreds of federally-recognized tribes across the country in receiving funds from a $940 million proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit known as the Ramah Navajo Chapter Settlement.

Cherokee Nation Tribal Council Speaker Joe Byrd was elected Wednesday, Oct. 21 to serve as vice-president of the eastern Oklahoma region of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) during a conference in San Diego.

Note: This is a schedule for Tribal Court, and defendants are scheduled to appear on the dates listed. It should be noted that the following defendants have only been charged with the crimes listed and should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Ashlyn Nichole Carothers, 23, of Cherokee, was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 15 to 180 months in prison for her involvement in a robbery on the Cherokee Indian reservation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.