Indigenous nations have been connected through trade routes for centuries before and after colonization. We traded food, beadwork, clothes, raw materials, anything useful or beautiful or both.

I, like many folks, came from a background of limited means – a family with a firm genealogy in Appalachia, genes from the Qualla Boundary through my father and genes from generations of Carolina mountain people from my mother.

The staff at Tsali Manor invited the One Feather to join the elders on Halloween morning for a celebration. It was an honor to be asked to join the elders for their holiday.

Rumors have been circulating for years now that there is sex trafficking at the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

Turning to the media these days will scare you to death. Well, not literally, but it sure gives you a moment or two of pause in your day when you pick up the paper, turn on the TV or click on the radio.