“Grab your pens, your pencils, highlighters and that kind of thing.  Let us just get ready today.  We’ll be moving around a bit in your Bibles, to see what the Lord has for us today,” encouraged, Pastor Melton.

During EBCI Community Services program reports last week, Natural Resource Enforcement (NRE) reported that out of 908 total calls for the previous reporting period (typically a month), 123 calls were requesting help with elk. That is roughly 13.5 percent of all call activity for that period being elk related.

Our heritage, benefits, and personal identity have long been wrapped up in a system that identifies us as enrolled members of a body of people. In an ironic twist of fate, we are identified as Cherokee due to our connection to a federal roll established in 1924.