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The EBCI tribal courts derive their authority from Chapter 7 of the EBCI Code of Ordinances; it consists of one supreme court (one chief justice and two associate justices), one trial court (one chief judge and two associate judges), and such other trial courts of special jurisdiction as established by law (e.g. juvenile court). All justices ...
The facility which the EBCI has established to grow cannabis is located in an enclave surrounded by land that the State of North Carolina has jurisdiction over. In order to deliver cannabis products to the EBCI's dispensary, employees of Qualla Enterprises would have to leave tribal land, constituting a violation of state law.
The decision of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) to take control of the schools located on the Qualla Boundary under the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1987 [1] started a wave of tribal responsibility in education. EBCI Tribal Council began producing programs that aided its members in most all aspects of the educational process ...
The EBCI land — known as the Qualla Boundary — is a sovereign nation that has its own elections, laws, government and institutions that are self-governed and autonomous. It lies primarily in ...
Their descendants make up the members of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians today, referred to as the EBCI. In 1906, the US government dismantled the Cherokee Nation's governmental structure under the Dawes Act (except for allowing the tribe to retain limited authority to deal with remaining land issues, a provision that ...
Myrtle Driver Johnson (born May 21, 1944) [1] (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) is a native speaker of the Cherokee language. [a] [3] As of July 2019 she was one of 211 remaining Cherokee speakers in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI).
Michell Alexander Hicks (born September 8, 1964) is a Cherokee politician who has served as the Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians since 2023. He previously served three terms as Principal Chief from 2003 to 2015, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the position at age 38.
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