Patience. It is a virtue indeed. And, like me, I am sure you all could use a good dose of it. Pardon me for being rude, but we have become a society of, if not community of, discourteous people.

I was amongst the last groups of EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians )kids that received their ‘big money’ in one lump sum. I had just graduated high school and was told the best thing to do would be to cash the whole lot and take it to my preferred bank. Talk about a recipe for disaster.

“Father, I pray that every door that needs to be closed, is closed, that we might know clearly the avenues of the past in which we must walk to fulfill the mission that You’ve given us this year.  And Father, in these, may we give You all the Honor and everybody says Amen, Amen, and Amen.”  (Continued from last week.)

In recent years, a number of us have been doing voter registration in Cherokee for county, state and national elections with more success in some years than others.   It is very important that Cherokees vote in these elections as what happens in the county, Raleigh and Washington directly impacts enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.  

From language to artifacts, we say that the preservation of our ancestry is a high priority. We say.

The Lord has placed in my heart for the year 2022 that this shall be a year of  soul-winning for this church.

The Lloyd Welch constitution came from our desire to be free. It was a constitution because we wanted not to be governed, but to govern. Why allow us to then, decades later, throw ourselves under a charter?

I’ve read comments several times over this past week alone where people state that federally recognized tribes must maintain their language or risk losing their federal recognition.  This is absolutely, unequivocally untrue.