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Cherokee Food Drive to support MANNA
MANNA Food Bank has been providing qualified Cherokee Central School students with food to take home for the weekends for the past three years.
Tribal Council Results – Thursday, Feb. 3
Feb. 3, 2011 Count Sheets Tabled Ord. No. 532 – Hunting & Fishing Ord. Amendments; appointments to Committee, two from each Community – Amended/Passed Tabled Ord. No. 561 – Fire Prevention Code – Remains Tabled Tabled Ord. No. 562 – TERO Ord. Amendments – Remains...
Cherokee A.L.E. hosts FBI-LEEDA Training
The Cherokee Alcohol Law Enforcement (A.L.E.) program hosted a FBI-LEEDA program this past week entitled “Executive Survival: Policing in the 21st Century”.
2012 Budget includes Huge Cuts to Indian Country
President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2012 budget request for Indian Affairs, which includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), is $2.5 billion – a $118.9 million decrease from the FY 2010 Enacted/FY 2011 Continuing Resolution (CR) levels.
Federal Indictments filed on Cherokee Cases
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina announced several indictments by a federal grand jury on Feb. 11.
Making Beanbread with Matilda Calhoun
The 4-H Native American Craft Club met on Monday, Feb. 7, and Matilda Calhoun, known on the Qualla Boundary as one of “The Reed Sisters”, was gracious enough to share her secret to making delicious beanbread.
Volunteers needed to help with WCU’s Rivercane Restoration Project
Volunteers are being sought to help relocate rivercane from the Western Carolina University area to a site near Cherokee as part of the university’s Rivercane Restoration Project.
Hospital Eye Chart in Cherokee Language
Children who read the Cherokee language can now use an eye chart using the Cherokee syllabary when getting eye exams at the Cherokee Indian Hospital.
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