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"The United States Congress is exploring the possibility of honouring a promise
made nearly 200 years ago: seating a delegate from the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma, a Native American tribe, in the US legislature.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin testified on Wednesday before a US
House Rules Committee, the first to examine the prospect of seating a Cherokee
delegate in the chamber of Congress.
The 1835 Treaty of New Echota includes a provision allowing the Cherokee Nation
to send a delegate to Washington, DC. A separate treaty in 1866 affirmed this
right, Hoskin said.
“The Cherokee Nation has in fact adhered to our obligations under these
treaties,” he told the panel. “I’m here to ask the United States to do the
same.”
The session took place amid calls for the US to reckon with its history of
violent displacement, racism and cultural erasure against Native Americans.
“Article 7 of the Treaty of New Echota is crystal clear—Cherokee Nation ‘shall
be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States
whenever Congress shall make provision for the same’,” the Cherokee Nation
website notes.
The treaty was used as the legal basis for the US government’s forced removal
of Cherokee Nation members from their homelands east of the Mississippi River.
According to the US National Parks Service (NPS), it was carried out under
coercive and illegal circumstances."
Via Susan **** and Diane A.
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