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Tribal Court Judgment Summary for March 31    14-25.12 Disorderly Conduct – Guilty, 30 days jail time suspended, 12 months probation    14-10.16 Second Degree Trespass – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued    14-40.62(a)(1) Simple Assault – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued 14-30.6 Child Abuse in the Second Degree – Guilty, Prayer for Judgment Continued   14-40.13(3) Abuse of an Elder of Vulnerable Adult – Dismissed in Interest of Justice    14-95.11(c) Drugs: Possessio...

TAHLEQUAH – Seven Cherokee Nation citizens conducted the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Cherokee National Historical Society on March 11.                                                    The creation of a new Cherokee National Historical Society is a component of the Cherokee Heritage Center Act of 2020, which was unanimously appr...

2:45 Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with Nikwasi Initiative Director Elaine Eisenbraun about the next stage of plans for the areas around the Nikwasi Mound in Franklin. The Initiative secured the deed to the mound in 2019. Now Eisenbraun says the agriculture of the early Cherokee will be celebrated at the site. The nonprofit that took control of the sacred Nikwasi Mound in Franklin two years ago is releasing more details about its plans for the site. The Nikwasi Initiative is made up of represen...

Katlin Roberts masks up for teaching. Donated photo Katlin Roberts was making coronavirus contingency plans before most people in the United States had even really heard of COVID-19. By February, she’d grown concerned enough to walk into her principal’s office and ask what would happen if the disease spread to Cherokee. They’d take precautions, she was told, but certainly wouldn’t send students home.  “Less than a month later in March was when the decision was made to close the sc...

8 dead in US spa shootings; 21-yr-old suspect in police custody ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 09:56 IST Georgia [US], March 17 (ANI): A 21-year old man is suspected to be behind shootings at three different massage parlours in the United States Atlanta area, which has left eight dead, including several Asian women, police said on Tuesday (local time). "Video footage from our Video Integration Center places the Cherokee County suspects vehicle in the area, ar...

TAHLEQUAH – Cherokee Nation Businesses is beginning work on a temporary new home for the Cherokee Nation’s foremost collection of historic tribal-related documents and cultural artifacts from the 1700s through present day.   Historically housed at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Park Hill, the items were recently declared in a state of emergency by the Tribal Council because of aging infrastructure and the need for updated environmental controls necessary for proper preservat...

Date Time Teenage girl arrested after crash in stolen car at Seven Hills A teenager has been arrested after a stolen car crashed into a tree at Seven Hills overnight. Shortly after midnight (Tuesday 16 March 2021), emergency services were called to Best Road, near Ross Street, Seven Hills after reports a Jeep Grand Cherokee had crashed into a tree. Officers from Blacktown Police Area command attended the scene and arrested a 16-year-old female who is believed to have been driving the car. She w...

Citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued last year involving the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals found Thursday the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute a

In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.

It all starts with universal health care and a history of self-reliance. This is a story about a nation that came together to defeat Covid against all odds, a land where leaders follow the science and provide health care for all. “Osiyo, welcome to the Cherokee Nation.” Wait, Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma? In America? Native American reservations have some of the lowest life expectancies in the entire Western Hemisphere. The U.S. government signed treaties that guarantee tribes health care, b...