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Guest Opinion. For the past four years, I have been honored to serve as Principal Chief of the great Cherokee Nation. We navigated unprecedented challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous attacks on our tribal sovereignty. We faced legal battles, affirming our sovereign rights through victories at the U.S. Supreme Court. We strengthened and expanded programs supporting the Cherokee language, health, economic opportunities and more.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. In May, at the Cannes Film Festival press conference after the debut of Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nimíipuu) sat, in measured grace, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, and Martin Scorsese, speaking as an Indigenous woman in a place traditionally held by white males.
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- By STEPHEN CARR HAMPTON
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OPINION. Before I was Secretary of the Interior, or even a member of Congress, I was an organizer. With signs made on my kitchen floor with poster board and markers, I urged our leaders to act for and invest in Indian Country.
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- By Deb Haaland
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- By Levi Rickert
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Opinion. Over the past few weeks, legislation that is important to Indian Country passed the U.S. Senate, which is controlled by Democrats who have a slight majority. Those bills are now heading to the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans have a slim majority.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. We at the Cherokee Nation firmly believe in being good neighbors to all Oklahomans who share our home. The Oklahoma governor’s vetoes of the tribal-state compacts governing tobacco sales and motor vehicle registrations — both widely supported, bipartisan bills — were recently overturned by the Oklahoma State Senate.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. Powwows bring family, friends, tribal communities, and non-Natives together for beautiful cultural exchange. The sounds of powwow drums intermingling with jingle dresses as women dancers walk around the powwow grounds always adds to the mystique of the powwow experience.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. Cherokee artists share the Cherokee story and culture with the world. They are essential to our identity as a people. Sadly, the pandemic led to many canceled art shows and festivals and temporarily closed galleries. It hurt so many of our artists financially. We treasure Cherokee artists, but they have struggled in this hard time.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. My family buried our mother, Jennie Whitepigeon Rickert Wicker, on Friday. She walked on last Sunday morning, three days short of her 92nd birthday. On Wednesday, we honored her spirit with a cake and sang “Happy Birthday.”
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. The Cherokee Nation building boom is on. Right now, we are investing more than $750 million in capital improvements across more than 50 construction projects on our 14-county reservation. Whether new health care facilities, family homes, community centers or more, Cherokee Nation is putting up buildings that will serve our people well for many decades.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
