The Cherokee Preservation Foundation (CPF) has invested over $50 million in the local community since its inception in 2002. The organization gave a total of $5,401,161 to 69 various grantees in 2010 alone. Some of those grantees and their programs were highlighted during a Community Celebration held at the Cherokee Youth Center on Friday, May 13.

The Seventh Annual Elders Walk was held in Cherokee on Friday, May 13.  in conjuction with Older Americans Month.  For a photo gallery from this event, visit: https://www.theonefeather.com/photo-galleries-2/?album=129&gallery=136 - SCOTT MCKIE B.P., ONE FEATHER...

Many in the nation cheered earlier in the month at the news that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, was killed by a U.S. military operation.

Native Hawaiians are one step closer to having a government-to-government relationship with the federal government thanks to a bill (S. 675) that just passed through a Senate Committee.

Sky Kanott is excited to join the team at EBCI Cooperative Extension as the new Youth Council – 4-H program intern. She will advise and help mentor the 42 members of the Cherokee Youth Council, an organization for kids ages 12-18 as well as work with the 4-H program in Cherokee.

Deborah Grant, Cherokee Preservation Foundation finance officer, will graduate from the Leadership North Carolina program later this week.