WCU hosts photo exhibit focusing on Trail of Tears

CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center will display a photography exhibit focusing on the Trail of Tears in the museum’s Gallery C through Sept. 30.             Including 50 contemporary photographs by David G. Fitzgerald, the collection...

Cherokee Residents arrested in Tenn.

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. – Five Cherokee residents were arrested in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. over the weekend.  Josh E. Crowe, John W. Raby, Amber S. Crowe, Jerilyn M. Jackson, and Hannah F. Calhoun were arrested by Pigeon Forge Police on Saturday, July 10 and charged in...

No Ticket for group claiming Choctaw Heritage

Echo Hawk issues a Proposed Finding Against Acknowledgment of the Choctaw Nation of Florida   WASHINGTON – Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Donald “Del” Laverdure, acting on behalf of Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk who was travelling,...