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For nearly a year fluent Cherokee Speaker Rosie Flute was cooking family meals on an electric burner after her stove wore out. Raindrops would frequently drip down the ceiling in

BELFONTE – Cherokee Nation officials on Feb. 24 joined Rural Communities Initiative Foundation leaders to cut the ribbon on the new Sallie Byrd Sevenstar Community Building in Sequoyah County.   The center is named in honor of CN citizen and fluent Cherokee speaker Sallie Byrd Sevenstar, who died in August, states a CN release. According to the release, Sevenstar was a lifelong Nicut resident. It also states that she was a retired teacher of more than 30 years and a Belfonte Baptist ...