Brooklyn Brown Bigmeat

By BROOKLYN BROWN BIGMEAT One Feather Reporter CHEROKEE, N.C.—The Cherokee Police Commission monthly meeting was held on the afternoon of Taline Iga (Tuesday), Duliisdi (Sept.) 8 in the Ginger Lynn Welch Poke Salad Room. Gahvsgi (Chairperson) Anita Lossiah called the meeting to order at 12 p.m. Secretary Israel Rodriguez led roll call.

By BROOKLYN BROWN BIGMEAT One Feather Reporter CHEROKEE, N.C. – On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 2, Dinilawigi (Tribal Council) voted to table Res. No. 290 reinstating the Board of Managers of Qualla Enterprises, LLC, who were suspended via Res. No. 181. Aniwodihi (Painttown) Rep. Shannon Swimmer, who served on an advisory committee comprised of Dinilawigi members and EBCI employees to review the activity of the board, stated, “On page 2, line 9 and 10 [of Res.

By BROOKLYN BROWN BIGMEAT One Feather Reporter CHEROKEE, N.C. – On the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, Dinilawigi (Tribal Council) assembled for their monthly council session. The first item on the agenda was a protest of Ord. 184(26) ‘An ordinance amending Chapter 19 regarding caging bears on Tribal Lands,’ that passed during the last council session on Aug. 6. Collette Coggins and Katherine Ella Taylor, both members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), submitted the protest.