Kevin M. FitzGerald, Deputy Superintendent, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, recently was presented the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (Department) Meritorious Award, the Department’s second highest honor.        On April 14, Park Superintendent Dale...

It was once a dairy farm. It also once housed a craft business known as The Cherokees for years. Soon, it will be the new transportation hub for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk issued a final determination not to acknowledge the petitioner known as the Choctaw Nation of Florida (Petitioner #288) as an Indian tribe on Friday, April 22.

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.