Tribal Council addresses Election Board investigation
Tribal Council passed a resolution requesting the Tribe (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) to release information regarding the investigation of the 2017 Tribal election.
Resolution 448 (2021) was submitted by Lori Taylor and Ashley Sessions and involved an hour-long discussion at the May 6 Tribal Council session. The document requested the reports gathered by the Tribe over the last several years be offered to the public for review.
Sessions says that she has continuously called upon the office of Internal Audit for this information since 2018 and has received nothing. Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed presented several pieces of information in this session, while stating that a written report was provided to Internal Audit on Dec. 10, 2019. He said that the Attorney General’s office requested that they have until Monday, May 10 to provide these documents. Chief Sneed said the reasoning for this was to provide a ‘
Becky Walker memorial garden passed by Tribal Council
Tribal Council passed an amended resolution that will add a memorial garden for Becky Walker and others at the future pavilion location near Kituwah.
Tribal Council passed an amended resolution that will add a memorial garden for Becky Walker and others at the future pavilion location near Kituwah. (One Feather file photo)
Resolution No. 452 (2021) was submitted by several members of the community in honor of Walker, who passed away in July 2020 at the age of 47.
The original concept was to place a memorial garden just after the railroad tracks as you enter into the area around Kituwah. The plot they picked was a 16 by 16-foot parcel in between the railroad and the covered structure, well away from the mound.