The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will now be able to provide native plants for various projects due to the opening of the Native Plant Nursery Facility in the Birdtown Community. The 2,200 square foot facility was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, July 22.

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 9,354,695 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013 spent $734,086,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 10,734 jobs in the local area. “Great Smoky Mountains National Park remains...

The team at EBCI Destination Marketing is planning another fun-filled Cherokee Indian Fair the week of Oct. 7-11, according to Howard Wahnetah at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. Several pieces of the five-day event have already been put into place and activity scheduling seems to be finishing up.

The Snowbird Youth Center was opened by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in 2002 – four years after the Tribe opened the Cherokee Youth Center Boys & Girls Club. For the first 12 years of its existence, the Snowbird Youth Center was housed in other programs, but now, it has a new home all its own.

Most cases of Hepatitis C (Hep C) are not reported. According to the CDC, an estimated 3.2 million people in the United States have the disease with many having no idea they are infected.

Cherokee Tribal Court Docket for July 22

The EBCI Budget and Finance Department presented the FY13 audited financial statements to Tribal Council on Tuesday, July 8. Each year, the Tribe has an independent audit to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are fairly presented in accordance with generally-accepted accounting principles (GAAP).