To recognize Cherokee citizens making noteworthy contributions to Cherokee language, culture, community, service, education, health and business, the Cherokee Phoenix has named honorees of the fourth annual Seven Feathers Awards.
Nico Albert grew up in California being asked "what are you?" which she describes as a "rudely worded way of demanding to know my race in social situations . an uncomfortable and super-complicated question to hear as a young woman trying to figure out precisely that."