Cherokee Nation

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/5/2022
  

  Will a Cherokee Nation Delegate be Seated in Congress?

  Even without a vote in Congress, Delegates can use the privileges of their position to make a difference. Kimberly Teehee's potential seating as the Cherokee Nation's delegate would create a dedicated voice for Native issues. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/7/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Opens Exhibition on Slavery

  Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: High Country News
  6/6/2022
  

  Considering the Full Life of Wilma Mankiller

  by Alaina E. Roberts

  Wilma Mankiller's career as an activist included a stint as the first female head of the Cherokee Nation, but she must also be remembered for the mass disenrollment of the descendants of Cherokee Freedmen from the tribe's rolls and their exclusion from a share of new income to the tribe. 

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• SOURCE: BET
  2/14/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Seeking To Collect Family Histories Of Slave Descendants

  The outreach to collect family stories is part of the efforts by the Cherokee Nation to address slaveholding and the exclusion of Black descendants from tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/14/2021
  

  My Ancestors Were Enslaved—But Their Freedom Came at a Price for Others

  by Alaina E. Roberts

  Historian Alaina Roberts' work grew out of a family history in which her ancestors were brought to Indian Territory as slaves of Cherokee masters expelled from the southeast, then became landowners as the government erased tribal control of land. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/24/2021
  

  Cherokee Nation Addresses Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People

  The decision by tribal authorities was a significant step toward resolving the issues created by prior decisions to exclude the descendants of Black people enslaved by members of the Cherokee nation from full citizenship privileges. 

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• SOURCE: Anadisgoi
  11/10/2020
  

  Cherokee Nation Announces New Plan to Explore the History of Cherokee Freedmen

  In 1863, Cherokee Nation passed an act to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, and later those freed slaves and their descendants were granted “all the rights of native Cherokees” through the Treaty of 1866.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  200 years ago, the Cherokee Nation was offered a seat in Congress. It just announced its chosen delegate.

  The conversation about nominating a delegate has been ongoing in the Cherokee Nation.