Last month, Tribal Council voted 8-3 to place the Tribal Governmental Affairs budget under their budget – monies that were previously located in the Executive Office’s budget.

Tribal Court Judgment Summaries for March 2, 9, 23 and 30

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.

Shannon Swimmer, an EBCI tribal member, received news recently that she passed the North Carolina Bar Exam.

The Cherokee Indian Police Department (CIPD), United States Federal Probation Office, and the Jackson Co. Sheriff Department, are trying to locate Shane Louis Walkingstick.

  Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials will reopen the Whiteoak Sink area with limited access effective April 1 through May 15 to limit human disturbance in critical bat habitat and help hikers avoid interactions with bats. Park biologists will continue...

  Miss Native American USA (MNA USA) Kristina Hyatt, an EBIC tribal member, visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation the last week of February.  As part of her Smile Drive 2016, through America's ToothFairy: National Children's Oral Health Foundation, Hyatt and...

Since time immemorial, Cherokee women have led their people through good times and bad times.