Posted on 08/25/2019 9:08:37 AM PDT by bitt
The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.
It was a historic step for the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and its nearly 370,000 citizens, coming about a week after Chuck Hoskin Jr. was sworn in as principal chief of the tribe. The Cherokee Nation says it's the largest tribal nation in the US and one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.
The move raises questions about what that representation in Congress would look like and whether the US will honor an agreement it made almost two centuries ago. Here's what's at stake.
Why is this happening now?
The Cherokee Nation's right to appoint a delegate stems from the same treaty that the US government used to forcibly remove the tribe from its ancestral lands. As a result of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee were ultimately made to leave their homes in the Southeast for present-day Oklahoma in exchange for money and other compensation. Nearly 4,000 citizens of the tribe died of disease, starvation and exhaustion on the journey now known as the Trail of Tears.
A delegate in the House of Representatives was one of the ways the US government promised to compensate the Cherokee Nation.
So why is the tribe only taking up the offer now?
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What other promises has our government made but never kept?
THOUSANDS.
Elizabeth Warren is currently occupying the seat you seek.
Talk to her Chief Screwedbyfakesquaw.
We’ll return...
That ought be easy to do. Just gerrymander.
What fraction do they have to be? Nice 60s music reference.
Yep. They get one just for them then they don’t get counted in the Census where they live.
In terms of representation it would be a wash.
What we really need to do is to drastically reduce the size of congressional districts, return appointment if Senators to the State legislatures and also increase the number of Senators to 3 per State, with one Senator being appointed every other year from every State.
Can that Representive be Warren, also known as Fauxcohantas?
Princess lying beaver is taking up their seat under false pretenses.
>>What other promises has our government made but never kept?
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.
Every family will actually save on average $2,500 a year...
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
Pat Paulsen
Armenians were Native Americans? Who knew?
Since all Indians are citizens and counted in the census, the "stipulation" is already fulfilled....or so it would seem.
In response to the democratic party’s idea of a gulag for all deplorables, and with Warren, I say to my Cherokee brothers of the feathers, GEAUX for it!@!
In Cher’s case, especially back then... I can’t say I mind.
The govt ought to play the Warren card
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