EBCI tribal members went to the polls on Thursday, April 12 to vote on the four measures comprising the alcohol referendum. Some felt the referendum was in violation of Tribal law.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the settlement of lawsuits filed by 41 federally-recognized tribes against the United States, in which the tribes alleged that the Department of the Interior and the Department of the Treasury had mismanaged monetary assets and natural resources held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the tribes.

Registered voters of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians head to the polls tomorrow to decide on four referendum questions related to the sale of alcohol on Cherokee trust lands.

Cherokee Indian Hospital’s Dr. Blythe Sanders Winchester has been selected for the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, which is affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

James Ernest Lespier, 33, an EBCI tribal member from Cherokee, was sentenced on Thursday, March 29 to serve two consecutive life sentences by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.