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Epidemiologist to deliver annual Indian health lecture at WCU
CULLOWHEE – World-renowned epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, professor emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School in England, will deliver the third annual Public Lecture on Indian Health at Western Carolina University on Wednesday,...
Capturing 10 years, CPF Photo Contest winners announced
Makala Washington, a third grader at New Kituwah Academy, reads a book in the Cherokee language as just the right lighting grazes off of her face. Click! Chris McCoy captures an image in time.
Tribal Court Judgment Summaries for August
Tribal Court Judgment Summaries for August
Park visits up in July
Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded 1,402,790 visitors during July 2012. This is a 4.5 percent increase in visitation as compared with July 2011. Year-to-date visitation in 2012 is up by 9.6 percent, which works out to 471,066 more people than during the same...
Encephalitis Awareness message from Healthy Cherokee
Tribe personally invited to Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention will kick-off with events on Monday, Sept. 3 in Charlotte and will conclude on Thursday, Sept. 6, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has received a personal invitation to the events.
Tribe passes enhanced sentencing law
Cherokee recently passed legislation during the August Session of Tribal Council which updated the Cherokee Criminal Code and finalized the full implementation of the enhanced sentencing authority granted by the federal Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010. Cherokee...
Queen sentenced to two years in prison
Hugh Nolan Queen, 48, of Cherokee, was convicted on Aug. 21 in The Cherokee Court in file number 12-CR-1318 for Domestic Violence Assault with a Deadly Weapon Inflicting Serious Injury and Weapons Offense, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment. The sentence was...
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