Services

During the 1970s when the Cherokee Nation began implementing self-determination and delivering services to its constituents, the tribe's organizational structure was mirrored after the federal government.  The Cherokee Nation organizational structure and both the number of programs and complexity of the programs have grown dramatically.  Our funding has increased over 300% and the tribal members we serve have doubled in the last ten years.  Many Parts of our organization and processes have not evolved nor kept pace with the change in the environment.  This too shall change.

Career Services

Community Services Division

Provides home construction and renovation services, adequate water and sewer service, construction of new roads, environmental assessments, lead-based paint, radon and biological monitoring programs, pollution source inventories, site assessments, and strives to decrease infections diseases.

Commerce Division

Provides direction over the administration of various loan programs, develops marketing and tourism initiatives to promote the economies of the Cherokee Nation and its citizens, and facilitates the development of individual and corporate business.

Education Services Division

Provides comprehensive education programs for citizens of the Cherokee Nation as well as other Native Americans.  The division operated and maintains school and departmental offices related to Head Start, Sequoyah High School, Talking Leaves Job Corps, Higher Education as well as develop the culture and language of the Cherokee people.

Health Services Division

Provides a full range of health care, from routine to comprehensive care.  Oversees twelve health care facilities and encourages patients to take primary responsibility for their health.

Human Services Division

Provides service and delivery programs related to the social, economic and welfare development of Native Americans within the Cherokee Nation jurisdiction through Children Services, Family Assistance and Employment and Training.

Registration

To be eligible for Tribal Membership with the Cherokee Nation, you must apply and be able to present a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Tag Office

Cherokee Nation citizens living within the Cherokee Nation’s 14-county jurisdictional area will now be able to purchase tribal car tags.