Cherokee Casino & Hotel Roland will welcome the critically acclaimed country music band LANCO at 8 p.m. Friday, June 12, at Lee Creek Tavern inside the casino.

Sequoyah High School has named Layla Harrington as its class of 2026 valedictorian and Emma Culie as its salutatorian. Sequoyah’s commencement ceremony for the class of 2026 will take place on the school’s campus at the Place Where They Play at 6:30 p.m. on May 12.

The Cherokee Nation’s 14th Warrior Flight departed from Tulsa on April 21, for Washington, D.C., with seven Cherokee veterans who served during the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Era, the Gulf War and in Kuwait.

As we celebrate Earth Day with a monthlong series of awareness events, we are reminded that protecting our land, water and air is inseparable from protecting our culture, our citizens and our future.