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"They are thriving,"

says Gary Walker of his adopted children Mazzy and Ransom.

The hope is that with better addiction care,

more Cherokee children can remain in intact families.

Photograph: Brian Mann

NPR

Opioids are devastating Cherokee families.

The tribe has a $100 million plan to heal

NPR

March 19, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/
1163694076/fentanyl-addiction-opioid-native-american-cherokee-nation

Cherokee Nation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cherokee_Nation

2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/
1124945834/cherokee-nation-delegate-congress

2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/
1043908123/indigenous-peoples-day-
native-americans-wilma-mankiller-cherokee

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/04/
953340117/at-first-wary-of-vaccine-
cherokee-speaker-says-it-safeguards-language-culture

2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/
756048206/cherokee-nation-names-first-delegate-to-congress

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/
opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/
578575379/wes-studi-on-his-cherokee-nation-childhood-and-how-he-discovered-acting

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/31/
547705829/judge-rules-that-cherokee-freedmen-have-right-to-tribal-citizenship

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/
140630565/americas-2nd-largest-indian-tribe-expels-blacks

https://www.npr.org/2010/04/07/
125668640/remembering-first-female-chief-of-cherokee-nation

Native Americans > tribes > citizenship / tribal citizenship

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/31/
547705829/judge-rules-that-cherokee-freedmen-have-right-to-tribal-citizenship

Cherookees

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/
1163694076/fentanyl-addiction-opioid-native-american-cherokee-nation

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

Cherokee citizen

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

principal chief of the Cherokee Nation

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

Cherokee Freedmen

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/31/
547705829/judge-rules-that-cherokee-freedmen-have-right-to-tribal-citizenship

Eastern Band Cherokee - North Carolina

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/24/
674509385/to-save-their-endangered-language-2-cherokee-brothers-learn-as-they-teach

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/17/
1111923413/cherokee-tribe-rename-smoky-mountains-national-park-clingmans-dome

1835 > Treaty of New Echota

In 1835, U.S. officials traveled

to the Cherokee Nation’s capital in Georgia

to sign a treaty forcing the Cherokees

off their lands in the American South,

opening them to white settlers.

The Treaty of New Echota sent thousands

on a death march to new lands in Oklahoma.

The Cherokees were forced at gunpoint

to honor the treaty,

which stipulated that the Nation would be entitled

to a nonvoting seat in the House of Representatives.

But Congress reneged on that promise.

Now, amid a growing movement across Indian Country

for greater representation and sovereignty,

the Cherokees are pushing to seat that delegate,

187 years later.

“For nearly two centuries,

Congress has failed to honor that promise,”

Chuck Hoskin Jr.,

principal chief of the Cherokee Nation,

said in a recent interview

in the Cherokee capital of Tahlequah,

in eastern Oklahoma.

“It’s time to insist

the United States keep its word.”

The Cherokees and other tribal nations

have made significant gains in recent decades,

plowing income from sources

like casino gambling into hospitals,

meat-processing plants and lobbyists

in Washington.

At the same time, though,

those tribes are seeing new threats

to their efforts to govern themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/
us/cherokees-congress-delegate-treaty.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Treaty_of_New_Echota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cherokee_removal

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