Alleged graveyard vandal gets time served
From the Office of the N.C. District Attorney, 43rd District ROBBINSVILLE – Following the results of a mental evaluation, a judge on Monday, April 19 ordered the release of an Oregon woman accused in March 2019 of tipping over 61 gravestones in Graham County. Shown in the photo is Lone Oak Cemetery, where Dawn Renee Phillips allegedly More...
Motorcycle fatality on Clingmans Dome Road
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers responded to a report of a motorcycle wreck on Clingmans Dome Road at 4:08 p.m. on Sunday, April 18. Maynoy Alexander Ardon, age 20, of Guatemala, was traveling More...
Tribal Court Judgment Summary for April 14
Badillo, Paul Whitewolf 14-40.30 Kidnapping – Dismissed on Plea 14-40.31 False Imprisonment – Dismissed on Plea 14-40.62(a)(1) Simple Assault – Guilty, 30 days jail time suspended, 6 months probation, More...
Momentum building for Sevierville project
By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Significant progress has been made on Kituwah, LLC’s 200-acre project in Sevier County (Tenn.). Last November, leaders of the Eastern More...
Court rules in favor of Catawba in land-into-trust lawsuit
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Staff A federal judge has ruled that nearly 17 acres taken into trust for the Catawba Indian Nation to build a casino on land near Kings Mountain was done legally. More...
WCU gains grant for improving advance care planning in Cherokee community
CULLOWHEE – The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded just over $374,500 to Western Carolina University’s Department of Social Work to work in partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee More...
EBCI pausing Johnson & Johnson vaccine distribution
By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Mass Vaccination Team is following Federal guidelines and ceasing the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine More...
EBCI 2021 Certified Candidate List
The following list shows the candidates certified for the 2021 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal elections as given to the One Feather by the EBCI Election Board on Thursday, April 15. There will More...
Syllabary turns 200: Cherokee language writing system still used two centuries after invention
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. One Feather Staff On a beautifully sunny early spring morning, Dawn Arneach walks around the Museum of the Cherokee Indian helping staff and visitors while wearing a nameplate More...
CCS switching to Plan A for final month
By JONAH LOSSIAH One Feather Staff The Cherokee Central Schools (CCS) Board of Education decided in a 5-1 vote that all their schools will return to ‘Plan A’ starting on Monday, April 26. This More...