WCU to hold Women’s Leadership Conference March 27-28
CULLOWHEE – Women serving in leadership roles in business, government and education in Western North Carolina will be among the speakers and panelists for the inaugural Women’s Leadership...
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Tribe to host Rainbow and Ramps event
EBCI Beloved Man Jerry Wolfe enjoys a rainbow trout and ramps dinner at last year’s event. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather) By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF The EBCI Division of Commerce is...
View ArticleJones-Bowman seeking nominations
The Jones-Bowman Leadership Award Program is currently recruiting EBCI tribal members who are undergraduate college students to participate in its 2015-16 program. A community member may only...
View ArticleSpring plowing available
It’s plowing time again! Do you need your garden plowed? Plowing began on March 1 and will continue through Saturday, May 30. It is free to all senior citizens and persons with disabilities that...
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Park plans prescribed burn in Cataloochee
Wildland firefighters monitor a previous prescribed burn in the Cataloochee area. (NPS photo) Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning a 550-acre prescribed burn in...
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Park seeks Oconaluftee roving volunteers
Visitors line the road with their cars while elk graze in the Oconaluftee area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Park is seeking roving volunteers to provide visitors with proper and safe...
View ArticleWCU School of Nursing hosting rural health symposium
CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing will host its first annual Rural Health Symposium in Asheville on Friday, March 27, to shed light on factors that impact the health of...
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ROTC Cadets honored at Military Ball
JROTC Cadets enjoy the food table at the CHS Military Ball on Thursday, March 17. (AMBLE SMOKER/One Feather photos) By AMBLE SMOKER ONE FEATHER STAFF Cherokee High School hosted the 2015 JROTC...
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CHS agriculture program seeing the fruits (and vegetables) of its labor
CHS student Anthony Toineeta and Joey Owle, Farm to School program coordinator, work in the greenhouse at Cherokee High School. (AMBLE SMOKER/One Feather photos) By AMBLE SMOKER ONE FEATHER STAFF...
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Cherokee Choices holds the 1st Annual Stress and Healing Arts Retreat
Participants in the 1st Annual Healing and Wellness Retreat, held on March 20-21 at the Birdtown Recreation Center, practice yoga techniques. (AMBLE SMOKER/One Feather photos) By AMBLE SMOKER ONE...
View ArticleBill Taylor Scholarship taking applications
The Bill Taylor Scholarship, named in honor of a previous Tribal Council Chairman for his involvement and encouragement in bringing the gaming industry to Cherokee, is available to all EBCI tribal...
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Cherokee Day of Caring event seeking volunteers
Lumpy Lambert (center), general manager of Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino & Hotel, was one of 225 volunteers for last year’s Cherokee Day of Caring. (Photos by Kristy Herron/EBCI Commerce)...
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Next phase of work on Newfound Gap Road begins in April
Crews work on paving the Loop-Over on Newfound Gap Road in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. (NPS photos) Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that a project to repave 4.3...
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WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center to mark 36 years in H.F. Robinson Building
Students from the Jackson County Junior Appalachian Musicians program and their instructors help entertain the crowd at WCU’s fall festival, Mountain Heritage Day. Area youth who participate in the...
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Park limits access in Whiteoak Sink Area to protect declining bat populations
Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have reopened the Whiteoak Sink area with limited access effective April 1 through May 15 to limit human disturbance in critical bat habitat and help...
View ArticleGadugi Earth Day Community Event set for April 22
By SARAH MCCLELLAN-WELCH EBCI AGRICULTURE AGENT Celebrate Earth Day by participating in a new community event, Gadugi Earth Day, on Wednesday, April 22 from 1-6pm at the Acquoni Expo Center parking...
View ArticleCES 4th and 5th Grade Honor Roll Lists – third 9-week Grading Period
Principal’s Honor Roll To make the Principal’s Honor Roll, students must receive an A, which is 93 or above in all academic subjects which are: Reading, Math, Language Arts, Science and Social...
View ArticleDeceased Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians between Oct. 1, 2014...
SUBMITTED By EBCI ENROLLMENT OFFICE This is a list of deceased members of the Tribe whose estate is entitled to a pro rata share of the deceased member’s per capita distribution of net gaming...
View ArticleNew Enrollees of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as of March 31, 2015
SUBMITTED By EBCI ENROLLMENT OFFICE This is a listing of new enrollees of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who were officially enrolled between Oct. 1, 2014 and March 31, 2105 who, UNLESS...
View ArticleWATR’s Annual Meeting to focus on Fish Conservation
Michael Lavoie, EBCI Fisheries and Wildlife Management director, will be the featured speaker at WATR’s (Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River) on Monday, April 13. A potluck dinner will...
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