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EBCI has 395 full bloods
According to information from the EBCI Enrollment Office, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians currently has 395 living members registered as 4/4 or full blood. The age range of these members and their gender is as follows: - 4 are age 0-19 (2 male, 2 female) - 39...
Tribe partnering with SCC to start Fire Fighter Academy
The EBCI Department of Public Safety, in partnership with Southwestern Community College (SCC) Jerry Sutton Public Safety Training Center (PSTC), is starting an unprecedented effort to train future fire fighters. In a joint effort to address the shortage of qualified...
An important date for SSI recipients
If you are an EBCI tribal member and you received a per capita check please read the following: Dec. 12 is the deadline for your per capita receipts to be turned in to the Franklin Social Security Office. This deadline has been set in order to avoid a lapse in...
Attention SSI Recipients
This is a reminder to save all your receipts. Social Security will be in Cherokee to pick up them up on Wednesday, Dec. 12. All receipts will be accepted at the EBCI Health & Medical SHIP office. SSI Recipients who still need to show receipts for June 2012 per...
Stranded hiker rescued from backcountry in Park
Steven Ainsworth, 56, of Washington, NC was successfully airlifted from the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, Nov. 2. Ainsworth had become stranded on a remote section of the trail as a result of the snow storm that blanketed higher...
Chief Youngdeer to sign copies of memoir on Sunday
Chief Robert Youngdeer will be speaking about his life and signing books at a special Veterans Day weekend event at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 2pm. The Memoirs of Robert Youngdeer: Marine, Chief, and Proud American, has just been...
Cherokee Boys Club Report – week of Nov. 8
CLUB SCHEDULE: Monday, Nov. 12 – Veteran’s Day Holiday (School, Club and Tribe) Wednesday, Nov. 14 – BOD Resolution Deadline – 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 – Safety Committee Meeting – 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 – Health Screen – 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov....
Harrah’s Cherokee donates 342 pounds of sweet potatoes
Manna Food Bank received a bounty of sweet potatoes, 342 pounds worth, grown and harvested in Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort 's HERO (Harrah's Employee's Reaching Out) garden. Volunteers from the HERO program learned to garden and planted the potatoes earlier in the...
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