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  • Learning About Love

    Deborah Bradley-Cherokee|Updated May 22, 2025

    I am a member of the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians; I was born and raised on the reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina when the reservation was extremely poor. I was the fourth child of a beautiful, full-blooded Cherokee woman. Unfortunately, she loved her alcohol, and she already had four children; all of us had different fathers. As a result of her drinking, after I was born, I became the responsibility, along with my other siblings, of my grandfather, who was a...