Cherokee News

WLOSers said tonight that a meeting has been set between former Price is Right host Bob Barker and Michell Hicks, chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:36 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:36 p.m. I read with great interest the story by Andy Powell in the June 11 Gadsden Times, "Group seeks recognition as tribe," about the so-called Cherokees of Alabama applying for federal recognition and inquiring about an electronic bingo permit.

Incident and offense reports from municipal police departments from June 7-15. Alabaster June 9 -Unlawful possession of a controlled substance from Highway 119 and Advanced Auto .

A Cherokee chief led an informational and hands-on program concerning Native American culture for a gathering of children at the Scottsboro Public Library Thursday.

Western Carolina University will expand its Cherokee language program and document historic pottery with more than $287,000 in grants it received from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

A librarian was terminated last month in Cherokee, and now the library's board is one step closer to filling that vacant position.

A group of descendants of former slaves once owned by the Cherokee Indians are protesting an honor given to Cherokee Principal Chief Chad Smith.

Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 1, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. The Cherokee Indian tribe has asked for $18 million in federal stimulus funds to spend on health care, housing, a new jail and roads on its western North Carolina reservation.

A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians asking the court to stop the Cherokee Nation from taking over the W.W. Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah.

Three city councils, three draft beer proposals, three approvals. Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals have all approved plans to begin selling draft beer after Monday night council meetings.

Storm Soccer Club will conduct boys tryouts for the fall 2009 season Friday from 6-8 p.m. at the Albertville Recreation center.

On June 4, members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will go to the polls to cast their vote on the most controversial issue that has faced the tribe in recent history - whether to allow alcohol sales at Harrah's Cherokee Casino.

Over the past several weeks we have been marking the last events held at Cherokee High School.

A former colleague spoke out on allegations that a former Cherokee city employee misused library funds.

CHEROKEE The Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, an academic partner of Western Carolina University, will host an open house from 4-7 p.m. May 21 to celebrate its new location at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee.

This weekend is special for so many reasons. There are graduation ceremonies and Mother's Day events, but for one Tennessee Valley family-- neither of those could top the homecoming for their favorite Marine.

Officials say the fire on the Cherokee Indian Reservation began Tuesday in the Big Cove Community.

A fire that had burned more than 3,000 acres on the Cherokee Indian Reservation as of late Tuesday started when sparks from a downed power pole ignited the forest in the Big Cove Community, officials and residents said.

More than 120 firefighters were working Monday night to stop a 1,000-acre blaze that was threatening homes in the Big Cove section of the Cherokee Indian Reservation.

A warrior dancer led a band of preschoolers in a fight dance Friday, minutes after the tots had sung "America the Beautiful," "Jesus Loves Me" and several other songs in their own traditional Cherokee language.