Cherokee Nation Newsletters
Osiyo!
Did you know that the Cherokee Nation is the largest Indian tribe in
the United States with more than 317,000 citizens? We are a provider
of health and human services, education, employment and housing
services, economic development, environmental protection and more.
The swearing-in ceremony for the nine recently-elected Cherokee Nation
Tribal Councilors will be at 2pm, August 14 at the "Place Where They
Play" on the Sequoyah School campus near Tahlequah.
Headed off to college? Have questions about education services in
general? Take a moment to visit the Education section
<http://www.cherokee.org/
of www.cherokee.org. You'll find lots of information available about
college resources, directed studies, the immersion school, Sequoyah
Schools and more.
The Transit department is opening a new route from Tahlequah to
Catoosa (The Hard Rock). Click here
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
for the details!
Cherokee Nation's Hastings Hospital is undertaking a new Baby-Friendly
hospital initiative. Baby-Friendly is part of a national certification
effort and includes improved educational programs for pregnant women,
new hospital policies to facilitate breast feeding, staff training and
providing designated areas in the hospital for women who are nursing
their children.
Have you ever googled in Cherokee? Did you know you could? Click here
<https://www.google.com/webhp?
and give it a try!
Garvin wins District 4 run off
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/28/2013
Cherokee Nation Tribal Council incumbent Don Garvin retains his seat
after winning the District 4 run-off race against challenger Mike
Dobbins.
Cherokee Elder Care celebrates fifth anniversary
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/26/2013
Cherokee Elder Care opened its doors five years ago, serving just two
elders with 20 employees, but has since grown to serving 123 elders by
56 dedicated employees and now working on a facility expansion.
Cherokee Fire Dancers deploy to Oregon
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/25/2013
A dozen Cherokee Nation Fire Dancers were deployed Tuesday to Oregon
to help fight wildfires in Northern California.
Redbird Smith employees surprise 10-year-old paraplegic with hand
cycle
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/25/2013
A 10-year-old Cherokee girl paralyzed in a car wreck nearly two years
ago got a great surprise Monday thanks to some caring employees from
Redbird Smith Health Center in Sallisaw.
Cherokee Nation deeply disappointed at South Carolina Supreme
Court’s denial
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/25/2013
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court denied petitions for rehearing
in the case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, filed by both the
Cherokee Nation and Cherokee Nation citizen Dusten Brown. Brown is an
Iraq combat veteran who has raised his daughter for more than a year
and a half inside the Cherokee Nation community of Nowata. Brown is
currently out of state at mandatory National Guard training.
Cherokee Nation Chief offers UKB compromise
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/24/2013
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker today announced two
possible scenarios to avoid a long and complicated federal battle on
the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians Corporation land into
trust application.
Deputy Chief Crittenden testifies before Congress
<http://www.cherokee.org/News/
– 07/23/2013
Cherokee Nation P.O. Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74465
"When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane.
When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person.
When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful.
Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen
Ashton Pittman, Op-Ed: Comparisons between the killings of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin were, perhaps, inevitable. And sure enough, those comparisons came swiftly last year after the nation learned of the 17-year-old Martin’s death at the hands of George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. When Zimmerman was found not guilty, Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump declared, “Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history next to Medgar Evers and Emmett Till as symbols for the fight for equal justice for all.”
Cydney Hargis, News Report: In the aftermath of the recent acquittal of 31-year-old Florida native George Zimmerman, the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law has come under national scrutiny, as have dozens of other states that have enacted similar legislation. The criticism will perhaps be led by whatever the U.S. Justice Department chooses to do with the case. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder denounced the law Tuesday in a keynote address at an annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), an esteemed advocacy group.
Joe Conason, Op-Ed: During most of the Obama presidency, George W. Bush has maintained a decorous silence. Keeping quiet may not always have been easy for Bush, watching his successor repudiate and unwind his legacy, from Iraq to Afghanistan and beyond, but his discretion was wise under the circumstances. Suddenly, however, he is speaking out to urge a “positive resolution” to the debate over immigration reform—and the time to listen to him has surely arrived.
Alan Pyke, News Investigation: Detroit’s bankruptcy filing is unconstitutional and must be rescinded, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina ruled on Friday. Thursday’s filing was supposed to set into motion proceedings that would allow the city’s unelected emergency manager Kevyn Orr to break pension contracts with 30,000 city workers and retirees, but Aquilina ruled Friday afternoon it violates the Michigan Constitution. The city is unable to pay nearly $20 billion in outstanding debts, most of which is owed to investors who hold the city’s bonds and to city workers.
Madeline Ostrander, Op-Ed: It’s become fashionable to say that political music is either dead or irrelevant. “Because of the ’60s, part and parcel of being a ‘serious music fan’ is lamenting that music isn’t political enough,” wrote communications scholar Michael Barthel in Salon last year, in an article called “Protest Songs Are Pointless.” The pop sound that’s churned out these days by top-grossing industry producers, even when it’s edgy or raging, is rarely political. But some of us secretly long for the solidarity that comes from belting out an old anthem together, without embarrassment.
Theodoric Meyer, News Investigation: From Maine to Oregon, local floodplain managers say FEMA’s recent flood maps—which dictate the premiums that 5.5 million Americans pay for flood insurance—have often been built using outdated, inaccurate data. Homeowners, in turn, have to bear the cost of fixing FEMA’s mistakes. It’s unclear exactly how many new maps FEMA has issued in recent years are at least partly based on older data.
Asawin Suebsaeng, Video Feature: Obama made a surprise address at Friday’s White House press briefing. He weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case, spoke about race issues in America, and called for an evaluation of the efficacy and wisdom of Stand Your Ground laws. “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” the president said. President Obama went on to pose the question, “If Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?”
Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed: Italy indicted 22 Americans in Nasr’s illegal kidnapping, and sought their presence for a trial. The U.S., ignoring the rule of law, refused to send its agents to Italy, a country with which the U.S. has a long-established extradition treaty, and which is a long-standing member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), so they were tried there in absentia. Robert Lady, as station chief and chief architect of the kidnapping, was found guilty along with 13 others (eight men were acquitted) and was sentenced, also in absentia, to nine years in prison.
Elizabeth Renter, News Analysis: After conducting a marijuana-legalization survey, The Partnership at Drugfree.org found about 40 percent of responding adults support marijuana legalization—a slap in the face. While it’s less than the numbers from other polling sources, the anti-drug organization is being forced to defend the War on Marijuana it helps to support. According to CBS News, the organization paired with an advertising agency to survey a cross section of the population, about 1,600 people of which 1,200 were parents of children between the ages of 10 and 19.
Jeff Bryant, Op-Ed: As long as this squabbling over the tools for education improvement continue to dominate the agenda, policies will continue to be flawed—Republican and Democratic. Contentious back-and-forth between groups that want less standardized testing and those that want every kid tested every year get us nowhere as long as there’s no policy vision for what children do when they aren’t taking all the bloody tests—or when they’re opting out of taking the tests.
Steve Horn, News Investigation: Records obtained by DeSmogBlogpertaining to City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College's hiring of former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus to teach a seminar this coming fall reveal that his syllabus features two of the most well-known “frackademia” studies. “Frackademia” is shorthand for oil and gas industry-funded research costumed as independent economics or science covering the topic of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the controversial horizontal drilling process via which oil and gas is obtained deep within shale rock basins.
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