The Healing and Wellness Coalition was started in 2002.  It has been an unforgettable journey that we have traveled in the interest of healing and wellness among the Cherokee people as well as many of our friends and allies. 

When we chose, as mankind, to domesticate animals, we took on responsibility. Domestic dogs have had the wild, the instinct for self-preservation, tamed out of them.

During the Emergency Town Hall meeting, Tribal Prosecutor Cody White made the following statemen

I read and reread your moving article, “Fresh Red Clay”

Observation: Jay Z and Beyonce are basically the Sonny and Cher of the music world now…or, the Captain and Tennille. Seems that there’s one set every generation. And yes, they’ve been irrelevant for a while now. All’s they need to do now is to record, “I Got You, Babe”.

We’re still waiting for the sidewalk we were promised. 

As I considered the discussion to come that evening, I wondered about how many of these mounds were at the cost of lives cut short by the use and abuse of drugs.

While apathy in modern cultures is not an unusual thing, it is much more impactful in relatively small communities like ours.