I have heard Tribal Council and community members discuss the possibility of one person, one vote in tribal government for many years.

Several months ago, I had surgery on my knee and during that time I was debilitated, it was necessary for me to use a walker. 

Isn’t it ironic how tribal leaders, and members alike, still seem to struggle with ideas of ways that would best benefit our Tribe when it comes to diversification of our business interest?

I am a student of government. I hate politics, but I gravitate to discussion of public issues, and one leads to the other.

The Cherokee people were a proud people. Known as one of the “civilized tribes”, we were known for our intelligence and industry.

I keep writing these things and they keep vanishing, volumes two and three have gotten lost in the ether of the internet and things that I wrote about then are old news now.

We are in great need of an overhaul of government protocol. I am not talking about the people who fill the seats of our elected posts.

We had dogs of our own, but we started to notice that there were a lot of stray dogs and dogs along roadsides that looked to be homeless and/or abandoned