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EBCI Health & Medical to kick off Tribal Health Assessment
What is the EBCI Tribal Health Assessment? A community health assessment explores and describes the health of a community and changes needed to improve community health. It is the basis for a community health improvement process that includes listing community...
EBCI Health & Medical Program Highlight: Cherokee Community Health
The Mission of Community Health is to serve as a resource in coordinating health care, environmental, and social services by providing quality health care through various programs to the Cherokee communities; in a way that is individual to their needs and consistent...
FEMA meets with Tribal officials
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently became the first federally recognized American Indian tribe to garner a Presidential disaster declaration, signed March 1, under the recently amended Stafford Act. FEMA officials are in Cherokee this week accessing damages relating to flooding that occurred Jan. 14-17 as a result of heavy rainfall.
How will sequestration affect Cherokee?
Sequestration officially took effect on federal programs on Friday, March 1. Now, the big question…how will this affect Cherokee and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians?
Park plans prescribed burns
Fire management officials at Great Smoky Mountains National Park have announced plans to conduct several prescribed burns across the park this spring including areas near Wears Valley, Lynn Hollow, and Cades Cove. The burns will occur between the months of March...
Federal agencies announce action plan to guide protection of Indian Sacred Sites
Four cabinet-level departments joined the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in releasing an action plan on Wednesday, March 6 to strengthen the protection of Indian sacred sites and provide greater tribal access to these heritage areas.
Eight men charged in Swain County murder
A 27-year-old man was allegedly murdered Saturday, March 2 at the Old NC 288 Boat Ramp in Swain County, and now eight men have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in his death.
Tribal Council Results – Thursday, Feb. 14
Tribal Council Results – Thursday, Feb. 14
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