Eastern Cherokee Organization

04/27/2026

The Eastern Cherokee Organization, a grassroots organization comprised of members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), hosted a Data Center Town Hall to bring awareness of the impacts that the centers can have on a community.

04/25/2026

Happening now!!! Our presentation with our guest speakers is starting, we’ll be here until 6 pm!

04/25/2026

Today from 3-6pm at the Yellowhill Activity Center!
We can’t wait to see everyone, and we are excited for our conversations with Jordan Harmon, Chey Morgan, and Kenzie Roberts.
Sgi, and see you all soon!
*There is a car event happening across the street from the Yellowhill Activity Center so the area might be congested.

04/20/2026

We are happy to announce the guest speakers for our upcoming Data Center Town Hall this Saturday, April 25th. Jordan Harmon, Cheyenna (Chey) Morgan, and Kenzie Roberts. They have been leading the way in the fight against hyperscale data centers! We look forward to the conversations and insight they will provide for our community.

Jordan Harmon is a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is of the Deer Clan (ecovlke) and descended from Ceyaha Tribal Town. Jordan graduated law school in 2017 from the University of Tulsa with a Native American Law certificate. She now works as a Policy Specialist for the Indigenous Environmental Network, working to advance a policy agenda that is centered on strengthening Indigenous nation-to-nation building, Indigenous rights, and an Indigenous just transition toward a sustainable future. Jordan is also a grassroots organizer within her community and has helped co-found a national coalition of Indigenous organizers against the buildout of hyperscale data centers.

Cheyenna (Chey) Morgan is an enrolled member of the Keetoowah Band of Cherokees and comes from the Oglala Lakota nation. Chey is the coalition coordinator for Stop Data Colonialism, a national Indigenous coalition of tribal members organizing to stop the mass expansion of hyper-scale data centers and generative AI on tribal lands and to educate tribal and municipal leaders about the impacts of generative AI and hyper-scale data centers on tribal lands, communities, and sovereignty.

Kenzie Roberts is a grassroots organizer working in the southern region of Mvskoke Nation in Yardeka (Creek) Indian Community. As vice chair of Yardeka (Creek) Indian Community Center, she helped found a community garden with grant funding from the NDNCollective Changemaker Fellowship, allowing her to secure infrastructure, supplies, and water for 3 years.
Kenzie currently serves on the CMN Extension Advisory Panel offering insight on how to engage our communities. This work has allowed her to grow culturally relevant foods in the garden to increase the accessibility to nutritious food and culturally relevant ingredients. These resources have allowed her to produce cultural cooking classes in person and virtually to connect the disconnect in our communities.
Her other affiliations include being a co-cordinator of the Stop Data Colonialism Coalition, a national coalition of Indigenous frontliners holding the line against rapid hyperscale data center development, and co-founding S.A.C.R.E.D. Inc., a non-profit by Mvskoke people, for Mvskoke people, to reconnect all Mvskokvlke everywhere to their lands, ways, and people.

ECO is excited to see everyone on Saturday, from 3-6pm at the Yellowhill Activity Center!

04/15/2026

‼️SAVE THE DATE‼️
Saturday, April 25th 2026 from 3-6pm at the Yellowhill Activity Center!
Presented by Eastern Cherokee Organization, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Bigwitch Indian Wisdom Initiative.
Come join us for a potluck and town hall discussion regarding the dangers of Data Centers.
More information will be released soon.
Sgi, and we hope to see you all there!

08/19/2025

Eastern Cherokee Organization is excited to announce our community driven podcast and radio program. We are seeking community members who have knowledge and those who are interested in learning radio operations and podcast programming. ECO is also seeking podcast guests to speak on various topics.

08/19/2025

https://forms.gle/c96jLnsusjtR6fvD6

08/19/2025

Eastern Cherokee Organization is excited to announce that we are starting a community driven Podcast and Radio program!
Earth, Culture, Origins aims to uphold the principles of Indigenous Just Transition. Topics and issues that we would like to discuss on our podcast and radio will highlight how our community has tangibly evolved through responsibility & relationship, the ways in which we have upheld our sovereignty, and our ideas of transformation for action.
We are seeking community members who have knowledge and those who are interested in learning radio operations and podcast programming to help assist us on this journey!
We are also looking for community members that are interested in being guests on our programs! Anyone who is interested, we ask that you please fill out the Google Form that we have linked.
Sgi nigada, thank you everyone💚

Eastern Cherokee Organization is excited to announce our community driven podcast and radio program. We are seeking community members who have knowledge and those who are interested in learning radio operations and podcast programming. ECO is also seeking podcast guests to speak on various topics.

08/05/2025

This time last year we were wrapping up the Protecting Mother Earth Conference here on our ancestral homelands, the Qualla Boundary. We had over 1,000 participants throughout the 4 day conference, from all over Indian Country.
It was beautiful to experience, and we are still glowing from everything that took place during the conference. To read and reminisce more about the PME2024, use the link! https://www.ienearth.org/pme2024/
And we want to again thank everyone who participated, volunteered, donated, and supported our efforts in hosting the PME. We couldn’t have done it without you all.
ECO is so excited to continue to create, facilitate, and share space with our community. We have exciting things coming in the near future, so we ask that you all continue to stay engaged with our page!
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August 1-4, 2024 The first four days of August we found ourselves in the ancestral homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) for the 18th Protecting Mother Earth gathering. Hundreds of domestic and international supporters, allies, and frontline communities joined us from far and wide...