On the heels of Thanksgiving and at the conclusion of Native American Heritage Month, a month set aside each year with the purpose of recognizing the significant contributions that America’s first peoples have made to the United States, I was saddened, shocked, and appalled by the level of disrespect you displayed during yesterday’s honoring of World War II Native American Code Talkers.

We, as a community and government, continue to debate the merits of cannabis in its various forms. The plant has its proponents and its detractors.

We, Indian Country and music fans, have lost two giants. Both are irreplaceable.

Cherokee has much for which to be thankful.

Treating everyone with courtesy and respect, regardless of their circumstance, is a behavior well worth emulating.

 I pride myself on having an excellent sense of humor.

After many years of prioritizing and then putting to the back burner the need for an overhaul of the Cherokee Code, Tribal Council voted last month to assemble a committee to review and “clean up” the Code.

How do you measure the performance of an employee? Managers struggle with this question.