Cherokee Nation is ready to seat a delegate in U.S. Congress
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 19, 2022
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Nearly 200 years after the Cherokee Nation signed a treaty with the United States that forced them to give up land and lives through the Trail of Tears, the tribal nation is calling on Congress to uphold its end of the deal.
The 1835 Treaty of New Echota forced the Cherokee people off of their homelands in Georgia, and onto a deadly trek thousands of miles away to what is present-day Oklahoma. It resulted in the loss of millions of acres and thousands of lives, but a single sentence . . .
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