Por: Politico Politics January 10, 2023
Three Cherokee tribes are pushing aggressively for the U.S. government to make good on a nearly 200-year-old promise to award them a sitting delegate in the House of Representatives. But, sensing that lawmakers may finally act amid the Biden administration’s historic advances in Native American causes, they’re also quietly competing against each other for the largely ceremonial seat. And so they have done what those in search of Washington... + full article
ABC News USA Politics November 28, 2022
The country's largest Native American tribe, the , is ramping up calls on the U.S. government to fulfill nearly 200 years ago.The historic treaty, which forced the Cherokee people off their ancestral lands across the Southeast and onto the infamous in 1835, was supposed to... + más
Cherokees Ask U.S. to Make Good on a 187-Year-Old Promise, for a Start | The New York Times
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ABC7 USA Politics November 17, 2022
signed in 1835, which provided the legal basis for the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River and led to the Trail of Tears, but it has never been exercised. A separate treaty in 1866 affirmed this right, Hoskin said.The... + más
Cherokee Nation Delegate Kim Teehee says it's time for America to fulfill its promise | ABC News
Cherokee delegate pushes for Congress to honor 200-year-old promise | Newsweek
ABC News USA Politics November 09, 2022
The House Committee on Rules is expected to hold a hearing this month about whether the Cherokee Nation will have a delegate serve in Congress, according to The New York Times.The Cherokee Nation has been campaigning to uphold their right to a non-voting delegate in Congress, a... + más
After 187 years, the Cherokee Nation wants its seat in Congress | Portland Press Herald
The New York Times USA Nation November 04, 2022
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — 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 sent thousands on a death march to new lands in Oklahoma.The... + más
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Newsweek USA Life October 11, 2022
Kim Teehee's ancestors were forced onto the Trail of Tears, and her parents were made to attend an Indian boarding school. So, it meant a lot when Teehee was named the Cherokee Nation's first delegate to Congress—but so far, the United States hasn't kept its... + más
Cherokee Nation presses for nonvoting House seat | The Hill
Portland Press Herald USA World October 07, 2022
A few years ago, Kimberly Teehee had her family genealogy done, wanting to learn about her Native American roots “pre-removal.” Using a memorial in North Carolina, with names of the Cherokee people who were forcibly moved west, her family discovered at least eight Teehee... + más
Los Angeles Times USA Opinion September 30, 2022
As California voters weigh proposed measures to authorize sports betting, they are confronted with emotional appeals extolling the possible economic benefits for Indigenous people. Proposition 27 is one of two gambling initiatives on the state’s Nov. 8 ballot (the other is... + más
$400 million and counting: Record spending effort to bring legalized sports betting to California | ABC7
As streamers threaten boycott, Twitch takes action on some gambling content | Ars Technica
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