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The highest point in Great Smoky National Park is now on track to revert to its Cherokee name. The Native American tribe's eastern council last week backed a plan to request...

The Cherokee tribal council will vote on whether to support changing the name of 6,643-foot Clingmans Dome

Passage could be the first step towards returning the peak to its pre-settler title.

In a special-called meeting Wednesday, April 13, Tribal Council approved a plan from EBCI Holdings, Inc. , to bid on an opportunity to build two new o...

Your guide for local events the weekend of April 1-3, 2022

Carmaleta Littlejohn Monteith has taken countless flights to innumerable destinations during her 86 years on Earth, so she no longer recalls exactly w...

With just days to go before polls opened in the election for a new Dene National Chief, Deh Gáh Got'ı̨ę First Nation's delegates were not registered to vote. An extension was granted by the leadership as a result, to ensure all delegates can participate.

Cherokee youth learning about raising chickens...     The EBCI Cooperative Extension Office was full of smiles and the chirps of baby chickens ready to go to their new homes.  It was distribution night for the Cherokee 4-H Youth Poultry Project as Sally Dixon and Benjamin Collette gave 10-12 chicks to each of the families in attendance at the event on the evening of Thursday, July 15. Blair Owle, age 5, center, selects chicks on the evening of Thursday, July 15 at the EBCI Cooperative Extens...

ON THE SIDELINES: Student-athletes should be commended for handling of pandemic season     As this sports season, arguably one of the oddest in state history, winds down, we should turn to the remarkable ability of most of the student-athletes to just hunker down and do what they needed to do for the love of their sport. Vivian Ross, Lady Braves varsity basketball player, shoots during a game at Swain County this past season while wearing the COVID-19 protocol-mandated mask. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P....

“About two weeks before the session I was called and they said, This is the first session. It’s just a reading, where its given a number. Its a formality and no action can be taken, so you dont even need to be there,” said Thompson, who did not attend the council meeting. According to the code Under Sec. 117-38(b) when a resolution is first presented at council, it is numbered and then no action can be taken for 25 days. The code reads: “No member may propose any motion or amendment to ...