Pam Turtle News Today

On Aug. 12, Cherokee Nation citizen Tresa Eagle-Miller got the news she had been waiting to hear for at least five years, that she was receiving a new kidney.

PARK HILL – After receiving a kidney transplant, Cherokee artist Pam Turtle was unable to work, and she needed to find something to do with her time. “My granddaughter Emma was running for Little Miss Cherokee and we had gotten her, her tear dress. We had gotten her, her corn beads and Sheila Bird came and sewed her moccasins on her feet and she needed some bracelets. She needed some traditional clay bracelets and that’s what got me started,” Turtle said. Turtle went out and...