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.”
Councilors also authorize the donation of 85 surplus intravenous pumps from W.W. Hastings Hospital to the Northeastern Health System.
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