According to Howard Wahnetah, EBCI events and fairgrounds supervisor, July 4th fireworks are a must see. Over 3000 people gathered to view the display last year with some coming from as far away as Alabama and Mississippi. This year’s show will be put on by East Coast Pyrotechnics, a commercial fireworks provider who has presented spectacular fireworks displays for Cherokee, NASCAR, City of Charlotte and the Atlanta Braves.

Check out a video of the Snowbird Choir singing in the Cherokee language at the release event for the new Cherokee Hymnbook at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian on Friday, June 13.

Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel is moving forward, and all is on track and on budget, according to Lumpy Lambert, general manager of the facility. According to Lambert, Cherokee Enterprises is on the verge of completing the mass grading which shapes the property into the proper dimensions to begin other, more advanced, land development.

A seven-year project involving 143 hymns has culminated in the Cherokee Hymnbook. The hymns were derived from an 1830 Cherokee hymnbook that contained only the words in the Cherokee syllabary but no music.

The CDC released a report on diabetes on Tuesday, June 10 that states that a total of 29 million Americans now have the disease. Even more startling is the revelation that 25 percent of those with the disease don’t even know they have it.

Andrew Conseen Duff, an EBCI tribal member, has been in IT and technical engineering for over 30 years. He has made numerous contacts at companies throughout the world, and he organized the EBCI Technology Expo to bring representatives of some of those companies to Cherokee to meet with community and tribal leaders.