Cherokee Nation Takes Up 1835 Promise To Send Delegate To Congress

[Picaro]

Cool.
Although I dont see how they would be a legitimate member of the House without a constitutional amendment.

they won't be; they will be like Guam's, or Puerto Rico's delegates. I doubt it goes well for them; most tribal govts. are corrupt and simpletons. Anybody who thinks they're going to get some native version of Ghandi or Buddha should probably just kill themselves now. Most likely they just want to be allowed the 'freedom' to 'practice the old ways', like slavery and torturing people for fun.

A Cuz reports that only the special people get stuff and that those who are so called leader live a lot better than the Little Injuns.

One of my grandmothers was born and raised on the Cherokee Reservation. She left before dark on her 14th birthday, on foot, with a few cents in her pocket and never looked back; they were pure scum then, and probably not much different now.

I interact with multiple tribes and don't encounter corruption/simpletons or a desire for slavery or torture.

How would you know what they do? I worked with many over the years; they like to talk about 'payback' a lot, and what they've done when they think they weren't going to get caught, for one. Corruption is endemic; if you've never seen it you aren't looking or deliberately avoiding seeing it.

 

[Disir]

Cool.
Although I dont see how they would be a legitimate member of the House without a constitutional amendment.

they won't be; they will be like Guam's, or Puerto Rico's delegates. I doubt it goes well for them; most tribal govts. are corrupt and simpletons. Anybody who thinks they're going to get some native version of Ghandi or Buddha should probably just kill themselves now. Most likely they just want to be allowed the 'freedom' to 'practice the old ways', like slavery and torturing people for fun.

A Cuz reports that only the special people get stuff and that those who are so called leader live a lot better than the Little Injuns.

One of my grandmothers was born and raised on the Cherokee Reservation. She left before dark on her 14th birthday, on foot, with a few cents in her pocket and never looked back; they were pure scum then, and probably not much different now.

I interact with multiple tribes and don't encounter corruption/simpletons or a desire for slavery or torture.

How would you know what they do? I worked with many over the years; they like to talk about 'payback' a lot, and what they've done when they think they weren't going to get caught, for one. Corruption is endemic; if you've never seen it you aren't looking or deliberately avoiding seeing it.

I work with them currently.

 

[Polishprince]

In 1835, the Treaty of New Echota was ratified in the U.S. Senate, selling Cherokee land in Northern Georgia and providing the legal basis for one of this country's ugliest episodes, the Trail of Tears, in which the Cherokee Nation was forcibly marched to a reservation in Oklahoma. But read further into that treaty, Article Seven, and there's a provision that entitles the Cherokee Nation to a delegate in the House of Representatives, quote, "whenever Congress shall make provisions for the same" - unquote.

Well, nearly two centuries later, the Cherokee principle chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr., is calling on Congress to make good on this promise by seating a delegate. He has nominated Kimberly Teehee for the role. Teehee is the Cherokee vice president of governmental relations and served as senior policy adviser for Native American Affairs under President Obama. She was the first to hold that position. I spoke with Kimberly Teehee from Tahlequah, Okla., the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and I asked her if she thinks this effort to get a seat in Congress will be successful.
Cherokee Nation Takes Up 1835 Promise To Send Delegate To Congress

That would be fantastic.

The Cherokee already have a US Senator seated from Massachusetts. How much more of a voice do they need?

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

One friggin letter...just one letter and she could be Kim Teepee...now how injin would that be?

 

[wamose]

In 1835, the Treaty of New Echota was ratified in the U.S. Senate, selling Cherokee land in Northern Georgia and providing the legal basis for one of this country's ugliest episodes, the Trail of Tears, in which the Cherokee Nation was forcibly marched to a reservation in Oklahoma. But read further into that treaty, Article Seven, and there's a provision that entitles the Cherokee Nation to a delegate in the House of Representatives, quote, "whenever Congress shall make provisions for the same" - unquote.

Well, nearly two centuries later, the Cherokee principle chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr., is calling on Congress to make good on this promise by seating a delegate. He has nominated Kimberly Teehee for the role. Teehee is the Cherokee vice president of governmental relations and served as senior policy adviser for Native American Affairs under President Obama. She was the first to hold that position. I spoke with Kimberly Teehee from Tahlequah, Okla., the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and I asked her if she thinks this effort to get a seat in Congress will be successful.
Cherokee Nation Takes Up 1835 Promise To Send Delegate To Congress

That would be fantastic.

The Cherokee already have a US Senator seated from Massachusetts. How much more of a voice do they need?

That's what I was thinking. I was also thinking, why should the representative be a Cherokee. There were hundreds more tribes than the Cherokee. If Democrats want this, my guess would be that Cherokees are a deep state tribe.

 

[Picaro]

The Cherokee were probably chosen because of their success at scamming the Feds. they even managed to turn the results of their biggest single scam into their self-inflicted 'Trail Of Tears' Pity Party; no other tribe except the genocidal mass murdering Sioux have done anything similar.

 

[CharlesSipe]

Nice One