The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians became the first tribe in Region IV of the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement to run its own program when it took over those services in 2012. And, that decision has paid off…literally. For their efforts, the EBCI Tribal Child Support program and Chief Justice Bill Boyum were given awards by Jerry Sweet, president of the National Tribal Child Support Association.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff are mourning the loss of Deputy Superintendent Patty Wissinger, age 55, who passed away Friday night of cancer. Wissinger was recently selected as the Smokies Deputy Superintendent last August. “Our park family, not only at...

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) cancelled the “Redskins” trademark on Wednesday, June 18. The 2-1 decision came down from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and called the Washington, DC – based NFL team’s name “disparaging of Native Americans”. A total of six trademarks, each bearing the word ‘Redskin’, were cancelled.

Students at the Cherokee Cultural Summer Camp perform the Groundhog Dance at the “Night of the Arts” program on Friday, June 20.

  RALEIGH - EBCI Beloved Man Jerry Wolfe delivered the opening prayer in the Cherokee language at the North Carolina Senate session in Raleigh on Thursday, June 19. Wolfe, 89, was named a Beloved Man by the Tribal Council in April 2013, an honor which has not...

After bicycling more than 950 miles, 19 Cherokees rolled into Tahlequah on Thursday, June 19 to complete the 2014 Remember the Removal Bike Ride. Thirteen Cherokee Nation students and six EBCI tribal members traveled across seven states to retrace the northern route of the Trail of Tears and remember their Cherokee ancestors who were forced to make the trek on foot 175 years ago.

  TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — After traveling nearly 1,000 miles retracing their ancestors’ footsteps along the northern route of the Trail of Tears, the 2014 Remember the Removal bike riders will end their journey Thursday, June 19 arriving in Tahlequah to family and...