Budget Council Results – Tuesday, Feb. 12

Almost 40 percent of American Indian women will be a victim of violence from an intimate partner during their lifetime according to the CDC. And, according to the 2010 Census, almost 60 percent of American Indian women are married to a non-Indian partner.

Caesar’s Entertainment, Inc. presented a $2 million check for the purchase and five-year operation of a MRI machine to the Cherokee Indian Hospital in October 2012. Now, just a few months later, the machine is in place and patients are already benefiting from its use.

Two groups in Virginia that claim Cherokee heritage are seeking state-recognition in that state’s General Assembly. The Appalachian Cherokee Nation of Virginia and the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Inc., aka Buffalo Ridge Band of Cherokee, are seeking recognition through Virginia Senate Joint Resolution No. 300 (SJR 300).

Heavy machinery and dump trucks are in full swing at the site of a January landslide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that has closed US 441 connecting Cherokee to Gatlinburg, Tenn. Phillips & Jordan, Inc., of Robbinsville, was recently awarded a $3.9 million contract from the Federal Highways Administration to rebuild the road.

The Cherokee Phoenix newspaper was first published on Feb. 21, 1828 and celebrated its 185th Anniversary last Thursday.  The Hunter Library at Western Carolina University has digital collections of some of these early...

A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that the 9,008,830 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park spent $818 million in communities surrounding the park.  This spending supported 11,732 jobs in the local area. “Visitors from across the U.S. come to...