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Giduwa Cherokee News exists because the community never stopped needing it.

When the United Keetoowah Band shuttered its media department in 2025, we continued publishing independently through Candy Mink Springs Media LLC. The name Giduwa comes from the ancient Cherokee mother town from which all Cherokee people trace their origins. We operate in that spirit — that the people of this reservation, Native and non-Native, are bound to the same land and the same stakes.

The stories that matter here rarely make it anywhere else. We write them anyway — tribal governance, federal Indian policy, community news, arts and culture, and the lives of the people who make this place what it is.

We write for the person in the grocery store checkout line and the policy lawyer in Washington who needs to understand what those policies actually do to real people. We do not choose between them.

Subscribing keeps this work going. Every issue goes directly to your inbox. The archive stays open. The reporting stays independent.

This is community journalism on a reservation. Subscribe because it matters where you come from.

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