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🌱 How Cherokee women leaders shaped this national Native women’s conference.

Cherokee, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • How Cherokee women leaders shaped this national Native women’s conference.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: An afternoon thunderstorm, with a high of 89 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Clouds giving way to some sun, temps: high: 89, low: 64.
  • Sunday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 85 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 'Unified Minds Bring Harmony': EBCI hosts National NAIWA Conference (theonefeather.com) — Women leaders from across Indian Country just wrapped up the 54th NAIWA Conference at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, highlighting Cherokee’s role in Native women’s leadership and advocacy. Local EBCI women led panels on government leadership and Rights of Nature, and attendees toured the Qualla Boundary, including a performance of “Unto These Hills,” underscoring Cherokee’s cultural and political influence.
   

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  • All clear following "Shelter in place" at Cherokee Central School in Cherokee, North Carolina.
    3:09PM on Jun 10: Updated reports say the Cherokee Central Schools campus will lift the shelter-in-place, and buses will load and depart as normal… (Nextdoor )
  • Just a few days after our last update on the Barn Owl box, the youngest owlet passed.
    Owlet #5 likely passed due to a combination of factors including malnutrition, failure to thrive, competition from older siblings, drought‑related… (Nextdoor )
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  • North Carolina Schools posted a job opening for Bookkeeper in Sylva. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Cherokee here.

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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