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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Eastern Band of Cherokee Planning to Create its own Social Services Agency

April 23, 2013 by moran

Angry over the way Swain County social services workers handled a child abuse case in which a 15-month old girl died, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is planning to form its own agency to protect children on a North Carolina reservation. Read the full article at Asheville’s Citizen-Times.com.

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