The chairman of the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs related last week that he will retire at the end of his term.

March 3, 2011

David Wyatt, GIS manager for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has been appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to serve on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has announced the recipients of the organization’s prestigious Indian Country Leadership Awards and the late Wilman Mankiller is among them.

Tribal Council Agenda – Thursday, March 3

Budget Council Agenda – Tuesday, March 1

The EBCI Governing Document Review Committee has begun meeting. Per a resolution submitted by Painttown Rep. Terri Henry, the committee is to review the Tribe’s “Governing” documents and at the end of the ten week period report to their findings to Tribal Council along with their ideas for a course of action for the Tribe to take.

The events leading up to tragic death of 15-month-old Aubrey Kina-Marie Littlejohn are under investigation along with the Swain County Department of Social Services (DSS) who is accused of a cover-up and falsifying documents including a doctor’s visit that never occurred.