The Cherokee Nation’s first organized fishing event exclusively for military veterans and their families attracted dozens of tribal citizens who served their country.
This past Valentine’s Day, a lot more veterans in the Cherokee Nation received cards for the holiday thanks to the efforts of a third-grader living a couple of time zones
TAHLEQUAH â The Cherokee Nation in collaboration with the Oklahoma Air National Guard broke ground on April 5 to build homes for veterans at the Mige Glory housing addition.Â
The project, which was five years in the making, came to fruition as CN officials teamed with the U.S. Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training program to begin working on 21 homes for Cherokee veterans.Â
The project will take at least three years, with the building of seven new single-family subsidized homes in the first year.Â
âWeâre going to have around 800 engineers rotating through here this year constructing seven homes of phase one of this project,â said Master Sgt. Mitchell Sisco, Innovative Readiness Training operations manager. âSo looking for a total of 21 homes by the time weâre done. Itâll be a culmination of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines that complete the construction of these homes and all the utilities, roads and everything else.â