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.

God never said to just sit around nor even just attend a church.  I read things like “Go ye therefore into all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”  We can almost hear a person say, “Well, that’s good, I’ll just lay out until next Sunday then.”  No, that’s not how it works, either.  Let me give you a benchmark.  Having started, I need to finish this.