We had a wonderful membership meeting in February, filled with community, family stories, heirloom seed information and giveaways, genealogy information, and great food as always! We hope to see you all at our next one.

We encourage all citizens to participate in the upcoming June 2025 Cherokee Nation General Election. You have an important voice that impacts the future of our Nation. However, there are important steps and deadlines to note.

CNCV Board Member and Cherokee Nation citizen, Mike Webb and wife Liz Webb demonstrated the important Cherokee value of ᎦᏚᎩ gadugi by coming together to work as one for the betterment of the CirbySide neighborhood during a recent volunteer cleanup day. ᏩᏙ Wado, Mike!

We have many exciting events coming up this year. Come join us and enjoy Cherokee fellowship, community, culture, language, and history. ᏩᏙ Wado!

Available to watch online: this 1 hour and 35 minute video highlights the critical work of language activists, artists, youth, and elders who are now leading a growing movement of urgent radical revitalization efforts to help save the Cherokee language from the brink of extinction.

We respectfully ask you to please renew your membership to keep our Cherokee community strong! Annual dues cover January 1 to December 31.

The CNCV wants to hear your family’s story! How did your Cherokee family come to California? Come to our meetings to put your family’s journey on our map and share in community.

An excellent new book was recently published by Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee Nation citizen, award-winning journalist, writer and host of the podcast This Land, and descendent of Major Ridge: By The Fire we Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land.

Rebecca did an amazing job: it's well written, easy to read, well thought out and argued. The Culture Center recommends this book to all Cherokees. Available on Audio, e-Book, and print.

Enjoy this story about the Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine, from James Mooney’s Myths of the Cherokees.

We reflect on a year filled with time spent in community, exciting new resources for at-large citizens, processing acorns, and more. We look forward to more events in the coming year and hope to see you there!

Cherokees traditionally gathered and ate many nuts, including acorns though they were not a staple for us like tribes in other areas. The ultimate slow food, processing acorns is a labor of love and way to slow down and sync up with nature’s seasonal timeline for this CNCV Board Member. If you’ve enjoyed a maple acorn cookie at a CNCV event, read more to appreciate the work that goes into them.

Saturday, November 9th was a beautiful day in Cherokee, California. CNCV members gathered for a fun field trip into history.

We had a great time together in community at our October membership meeting, visiting, eating a delicious potluck, voting for our board members, and playing many games of chunkey. Wado to Gerrit Fenenga for carving and gifting a chunkey stone to us!

The Cherokee Nation brought us a a second Cherokee Language Intensive class in October, including an incredible in-person weekend. It is a rich, beautiful language that needs to be preserved as the root of our culture and way of thinking.

There are many great resources for at-large citizens, shared recently by our at-large councilors. Their message is included below in case anyone missed this informative report.