Cherokees wants to send a delegate to the US House of Representatives

[longknife]

The newly elected chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., says it’s asserting a right promised in 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The same treaty that forced the Cherokee to take The Trail of Tears during which 4,000 died of disease, starvation and exhaustion.

So, what the big deal?

Kimberly Teehee, the tribe’s vice president of government relations, would join the current six non-voting members. Those representatives can't vote on the House floor, but they can vote in committees that they are on, introduce legislation and engage in debate.

Seems the major opposition would come from other Indian tribes claiming it would change their relationship with the federal government.

More @ The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress - CNNPolitics

 

[theHawk]

Only a matter of time until blacks request to be represented in Congress by their skin color, and not their district. Identity politics, will make us not a nation, but a federation of warring tribes.

 

[Kondor3]

Don't hold your breath over this...

 

[william the wie]

The trail of tears nation, There are four official Cherokee nations the eastern band that bribed their way out of the Transportions , the old settlers who made a mint in trans-Mississippi real estate deals, the western band that allied itself with the Dine (Apaches/Navajo) and the Trail of Tears Band that bet the farm that whites of that era were as literate as the Cherokee dumbest bet made by any Cherokee band even the Texas Band who got the word about Goliad and the Alamo and made peace with Santa Ana just prior to San Juacinto.

 

[Godboy]

The newly elected chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., says it’s asserting a right promised in 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The same treaty that forced the Cherokee to take The Trail of Tears during which 4,000 died of disease, starvation and exhaustion.

So, what the big deal?

Kimberly Teehee, the tribe’s vice president of government relations, would join the current six non-voting members. Those representatives can't vote on the House floor, but they can vote in committees that they are on, introduce legislation and engage in debate.

Seems the major opposition would come from other Indian tribes claiming it would change their relationship with the federal government.

More @ The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress - CNNPolitics

If they want that, then they get no more specisl treatment, no more tax free reservations and free money from the US government, and no more casinos. They have to go by the same rules as the rest of us.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The newly elected chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., says it’s asserting a right promised in 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The same treaty that forced the Cherokee to take The Trail of Tears during which 4,000 died of disease, starvation and exhaustion.

So, what the big deal?

Kimberly Teehee, the tribe’s vice president of government relations, would join the current six non-voting members. Those representatives can't vote on the House floor, but they can vote in committees that they are on, introduce legislation and engage in debate.

Seems the major opposition would come from other Indian tribes claiming it would change their relationship with the federal government.

More @ The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress - CNNPolitics

If they want that, then they get no more specisl treatment, no more tax free reservations and free money from the US government, and no more casinos. They have to go by the same rules as the rest of us.

No representation without taxation?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Only a matter of time until blacks request to be represented in Congress by their skin color, and not their district. Identity politics, will make us not a nation, but a federation of warring tribes.

Blacks don't have to request it. Elected blacks already represent skin color.

 

[Fang]

They already have a Senator from Massachusetts.

 

[martybegan]

They already have a Senator from Massachusetts.

1/734th of a senator.