The Cherokee Nation’s Office of Veterans Affairs recently received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help prevent veteran suicide.
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The Cherokee Nation is working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help prevent veteran suicide through the Staff Sgt. Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
A variety of events will be a part of the Cherokee National Holiday held during Labor Day weekend. The holiday commemorates the signing of the Cherokee Constitution on Sept. 6,
TAHLEQUAH â Access to clean water and proper management of wastewater have been priorities of the Cherokee Nation for decades.
The CN pursues its water objectives though a number of channels and methods, and among the most direct is its Sanitation Facilities Construction program through the Office of Environmental Health and Engineering.
âThe Cherokee Nation Office of Environmental Health and Engineering administers the Sanitation Facilities Construction program authorized by Public Law 94-437 as part of our self-governance agreement with the Indian Health Service,â said Billy Hix, engineering director for the Environmental Health and Engineering Office. âThis program offers assistance to both individual tribal citizens as well as community water and wastewater systems across the Cherokee reservation. Requests by individual tribal citizens are fairly evenly split between repairs to existing water and wastewater facilities and requests to install water and wastew