April 21, 2011

     Photos and other memorabilia are being requested for the 2011 Cherokee Indian Fair.  EBCI Emergency Management is collecting photos, wartime letters, memoirs and journals and other memorabilia for the 2011 Fair Veteran’s Display.       The Pageant Board would...

Cherokee Preservation Foundation will host its ninth annual Community Celebration event on Friday, May 13, for grantees, partners and EBI community members.

An event was held Wednesday, April 20 that was officially called the Ray Kinsland Retirement Luncheon, but the focus of the event was the announcement of two sizeable donations that will help generations of Cherokee students.

By PRINCIPAL CHIEF MICHELL HICKS      The Eastern Band of Cherokee is constantly developing, and right now there are several projects on the horizon that I would like to update the community about.       The Tribal Construction Program is in the process of planning...

The late Patricia “Pat” McCoy was honored by the EBCI Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program on Tuesday, April 19.  Manuel Maples and Brandi Cooper, McCoy’s nephew and niece, plant a rose bush in the front area of the Ernestine Walkingstick Shelter on Tuesday in...

By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF                 On April 19, 2004, the Cherokee Language Immersion school opened with one classroom and seven students.  It was housed in the Dora Reed Childcare Center.                  Now, seven years later, the school – now...

Zara Ellis Saddler, PhD, was banished during the regular session of Tribal Council on Thursday, April 14. As a result, she is no longer allowed on any of the tribal lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians unless under the order of a court subpoena.