The funding will assist the group in their effort to promote Cherokee culture through monthly community service activities and crafts in Dist. 4.
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An amendment to the motor vehicle tag act allows the tribe to withhold funding from schools that prevent Cherokees from observing cultural practices.
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The Durbin Feeling Cherokee Language Preservation Act will infuse $16 million into language efforts.
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Tribal Council Speaker Joe Byrd hopes to secure one of four top National Congress of American Indian positions.
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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was asked to revise existing rules to allow non-Natives to posses eagle feathers.
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The ambulance facility’s construction at the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center in Stilwell is estimated at $4 million
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TAHLEQUAH — Cherokee Nation leaders this month increased the Marshal Service budget by $256,757 for salary hikes.
Shannon Buhl, director of the CN Marshal Service, said the additional funds would be used to bring approximately half of the agency’s 31-officer force up to Bureau of Indian Affairs pay-scale standards.
“Everybody will meet the standard of the BIA now,” Buhl told the Tribal Council on April 15. “Some people get raises just because their salary was actually lower than the BIA.”
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Shannon Buhl, director of the CN Marshal Service, said the additional funds would be used to bring approximately half of the agency’s 31-officer force up to Bureau of Indian Affairs pay-scale standards.
“Everybody will meet the standard of the BIA now,” Buhl told the Tribal Council on April 15. “Some people get raises just because their salary was actually lower than the BIA.”
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