COMMENTARY: The next chapter
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR “Dike, Chelsea, I want to congratulate you on your victories. I want you to know that there is not a group of people that I would wish to work with than this one. You have a very fine group of people here that have a very open mind. They have great leadership skills, and we have worked very well More...
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Each one digs out their wells
CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH (‘NOW WORDS’ given by the LORD to PASTOR TIMOTHY L. MELTON for CHEROKEE.) ‘NOW WORDS’ Genesis 26:12-25, Haggai 2:4b-9. “Today’s world has poured More...
COMMENTARY: I miss the Festival of Native Peoples
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR Tourism is a business that changes with the generations. And even within a generation, the tastes and desires of the traveling public may be as varied as the ages, More...
“Before We Were Citizens”, a poem by an Okwataga descendant
By Maleaha Brings Plenty {Note: Ms. Brings Plenty, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a sophomore at the University of Iowa, is a descendant of Okwataga (1800-1900) and was asked by the More...
COMMENTARY: Beating our swords into plowshares
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR We have another election cycle behind us. The people have spoken. And, whether you spoke with your vote, or with your absence from the voting process, you contributed More...
SPEAKING OF FAITH: With his strength, power, and gifts – we can overcome.
By MYRA D. COLGATE CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH St. Paul wrote to his “son” Timothy, knowing he was facing his own imminent execution and so, with his last thoughts and words, he passed More...
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Fight for right (for true faith)
MYRA D. COLGATE CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH 6-8 “A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and More...
COMMENTARY: For the love of money
By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR We are a prosperous nation. Whether you are referring to our tribal nation or the United States, we are blessed beyond measure. I was struck by a recent advertisement More...
SPEAKING OF FAITH: John offers reassurance
MYRA D. COLGATE CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH “My little children, I write you these things so that you may not violate God’s law and sin. But if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (One More...
COMMENTARY: Beloved Men, Women could be memorialized with statues
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF Last April, a resolution was passed by Tribal Council establishing a lobby wall in the Tribal Council House to display photographs of the Beloved Men and Women More...