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Potential Cherokee Nation delegate optimistic she'll join Congress
NBC News ^ | 23 Nov 2022 | Isabelle Schmeler

Posted on 11/25/2022 3:43:25 AM PST by blueplum

For the first time in nearly 200 years, a member of an Indigenous tribal nation may have a seat in Congress.

The House Rules Committee held a first-of-its-kind hearing last week to discuss potentially adding a non-voting delegate to represent the Cherokee Nation in Congress. The provision was written into the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, which promises the Cherokee Nation a delegate in Congress in exchange for...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1835treaty; cherokeenation; kimteehee; nativeamericans
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To: blueplum
Charles Curtis was a member of the Kaw Nation who served as Herbert Hoover's vice president from 1929 to 1933


21 posted on 11/25/2022 6:00:12 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I was friends with a mixed race girl in college.
She considered herself black, but was proud of her Cherokee heritage.
She was shocked when I explained how that, probably, came to be.


22 posted on 11/25/2022 6:17:26 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: C19fan

The Cherokee and most of the “5 Civilized Tribes” turned on the settlers and allied with the British, in the War of 1812.
Thousands of settlers were slaughtered, along the frontier, at the behest of the British, after years of living peacefully with the Whites.
After America won the war, it was felt that the once peaceful coexistence would not return.


23 posted on 11/25/2022 6:28:57 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Tupelo

Actually, Nighthorse Campbell was a Congressman before moving to the Senate.


24 posted on 11/25/2022 6:59:14 AM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America!)
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To: Tupelo

Ben Riefel if South Dakota comes to mind too


25 posted on 11/25/2022 7:03:37 AM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Eagles6

Not taking anything from the Cherokee; lots to be proud of there.


26 posted on 11/25/2022 7:42:16 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: blueplum
Paul Revere - Indian Reservation (1971)
27 posted on 11/25/2022 7:46:00 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: Adder
Is the Treaty of New Echota even still in force?

If it's not, a lot of land in North Georgia could be changing hands.

28 posted on 11/25/2022 7:46:22 AM PST by x
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To: blueplum

Ok, the Cherokees will have a delegate in Congress. What about the Navajos, Hopi, Blackfeet, Mohegan, Pequots, Hawaiians, the Seminoles and other of our recognized nations? Should they have a delegate?


29 posted on 11/25/2022 8:05:47 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: ChronicMA
The US government unilaterally violated treaties with several tribes in Oklahoma. The treaty in question in the OP is between two sovereign nations and approved by both nations. A few years ago, the US Supreme Court restored treaty authorities and responsibilities of both sovereigns. The US government unilaterally nullified inconvenient portions of some treaties.

In Oklahoma, the affected tribes and state are wrestling with how to arrange civil governance and both civil and criminal law. This affects a patchwork of lands and people in the eastern third of the state. The wrestling is largely complete.

Please list other treaties between sovereigns that you believe should be unilaterally violated by the US government.

30 posted on 11/25/2022 8:23:16 AM PST by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99

it was not a foregone conclusion that all members of these sovereign nations would someday become US citizens. At the time these treaties were signed, Indians were not permitted to vote for federal or state office holders because they were not US citizens. Today as citizens they fully participate in selecting our government officials. No person should have double representation in congress.


31 posted on 11/25/2022 8:56:26 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: blueplum

These are the Cherokee from northeast OK. The tend to be very conservative. When they settled in the 1830s they were probably more Christianized than their white counterparts.The mother of evangelist Oral Roberts was an Oklahoma Cherokee.


32 posted on 11/25/2022 9:11:36 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

That’s funny... Roll out the Buffalo Carpet... 👍


33 posted on 11/25/2022 9:43:14 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Nifster

He represented Colorado, not the Cheyenne.


34 posted on 11/25/2022 12:47:10 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

That’s true


35 posted on 11/25/2022 2:13:31 PM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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