The Eastern Band of Cherokees donated $100,000 to Western Carolina University to help finance the school's new Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Principal Chief Michell Hicks, a 1987 graduate of WCU, presented the check. It was the latest in $84,500 worth of donations the tribe has made to the school, which currently enrolls 105 tribal members.

The new center cost $30 million and features signs in Cherokee and English, a seven-point star representing the seven Cherokee tribal clans and walls with the Cherokee syllabary.

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Eastern Band invests in WCU arts center (The Asheville Citizen-Times 5/20)

Relevant Links:
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - http://www.cherokee-nc.com
Western Carolina University - http://www.wcu.edu