Will Congress Fulfill a 184-Year-Old Promise to the Cherokee?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- On December 29, 1835, the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota. Like many treaties the U.S. government signed with Native American tribes, this one benefited the United States at the expense of the Native nation. The Cherokee were forced to relinquish their ancestral lands. During their relocation to Oklahoma, on what became known as the Trail of Tears, a quarter of their population perished. Most of the treaty’s promises went unfulfilled.
One provision in the treaty stipulated that the Cherokee were “entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States.” Nearly 200 years later, the Cherokee Nation has named their delegate: Kimberly Teehee, a former policy adviser to President Barack Obama and a longtime leader within the Cherokee Nation. Now the government has to honor this centuries-old promise. In a new documentary, The Atlantic follows Teehee on her quest to give her nation a voice in Congress.
“If we don’t get it done now,” Teehee says, “it might not happen.”
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In the United States House of Representatives Washington DC has a representative, Puerto Rico has a representative, the US Virgin Islands have a representative, as do each of Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas Islands... if you had asked me before watching this video I would have said “of course the Native Americans have a representative in Congress.” How is this even up for debate? The House needs to get its act together!
Are native Americans not eligible to vote?!
Artus Meyer-Toms they are, though they only secured the right in 1924 and between 1924 and 1965 (and the passage of the Voting Rights Act) Native Americans faced widespread discriminatory challenges such as poll taxes and literacy tests. I refer to Presidential elections; I will not claim any knowledge of the details of how different states manage the voting of the people who live on tribal land for state and local elections.
Artus Meyer-Toms - Do you see Native Americans in Congress?
Territorial delegates have no votes in either House. Natives who want to become members of congress can run for those offices. The treaty was signed when natives were still sovereign and not citizens of the US. That changed in the 1920s when they wanted to become citizens and were granted.
@@kiinyuum8001 They must run for office and get elected. A seat cannot just be handed to them.
I will be following this story in 2020. Best wishes for Kim Teehee and the Cherokee nation.
Kim Teehee is a hero for our people! I hope one day I can be a strong Native woman like her! ✊🏽
stormy officialthebody you already are halfway there if you believe you that you are!
Kim Teehee should have more intelligence than believe she would be a delegate with no voting power than a full-fledge congressional member. . All she has to do is put her name on a ballot like everyone else and run for office. Seats cannot just be given to those who want them. An election process must be adhered to. Only non-citizens of those in territories of the US can become delegates.
I'll be following this story
My mom and dad are very sadly gone. I heard my mom tell family history of her Cherokee Tahlequah, Oklahoma people. I remember sitting on my grandmother's lap and looking at how brown her skin was -- she was my dad's mother who was ashamed of her heritage and refused to talk about it and burned all the photos.
it is a shame that your dad want to forget his roots no matter what the cause we don not have the right to be angry to anyone and there is no good or bad in this world it is just who we are and how we do exists!! without them we will never be here... love and light to you and your family.. i am researching about native american tribes that really originates some of the people in philippines as its similarities cannot be just ignored...
@@sweetrensarmientorenee
Thank you, Renee! Oh my goodness, it's so nice to read your comment. ❤️
At the time the treaty was offered, Natives were sovereign and not citizens of the US. That's how they wanted it and our founders respected their decision and declared natives as sovereign people but that changed in the 1920s when they wanted to become citizens and it was granted. So, unlike those delegates from territories that are not States, and who have no voting power, natives must go through the election processes to get their names on the ballots and run as State Senators or Representatives for the people in their State. Delegation is moot now.
Hello......
The United States should honor their promise.
It can't. Natives were sovereign when the treaty was signed to give natives delegation. That is moot now since Natives are now US citizens and have to go through the campaigning process to run for office. It cant be handed to them.
Unless America, the US of A, admits the Native American Peoples to the highest offices and recognition, we are not, we cannot really, really be, America the Beautiful.
well said
@@ladynori I think you're mistaken in some of your facts. Congresspeople represent on average 700,000 people, though there may be more or less. There are 300,000 members of the Cherokee nation and an estimated 5 million Native Americans in the US. So having 1 representative would not be giving a small group of people an unfairly large voice.
@@ladynori I agree.
Moments with Maggie the US Virgin Islands (bought by the US from Denmark in 1917) have a territorial representative in the US House, her name is Stacey Plaskett and she represents roughly 100,000 people.
@@ladynori The U.S. Virgin Islands is a U.S. territory that was purchased from Denmark (he's not talking about Denmark he's talking about the U.S. house of representatives). It has a representative who represents 100,000 people. I believe he's making the point that it's unjust that a U.S. territory with a population of 100,000 people has representation, but the Native Americans with a population of 5 million don't.
It is November 2022 and SHE HAS STILL YET TO BE SEATED. WRITE CONGRESS. CALL CONGRESS. EMAIL CONGRESS. THEY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. MAKE CONGRESS SEAT HER. MAKE THEM LET HER DO HER JOB. This is infuriating.
More Now than ever we need representation in government for our people❤❤❤
I wonder what America would look like if we never came over from the east. Would they still be running around the forests living in nature? How interesting a place that would be to visit.
If you want to get Congress to act, have the American workforce stop contributing to their 401K plans. When pay Friday arrives, Wallstreet will no longer have billions upon billions of 401K contributions to play with. Watch how fast everything changes when this government realizes that the people have found their power.
Kimberly is my hero!
Go to: MarkCharles2020 The only native American of the Navajo Tribe running for President. Congratuulations to TeeHee.
Why not ! You were there first !
even for running for a se(a)t in this kind of government system it will never work because it is all about interlocking corpse-ora-tion... we all knew the answer to the ignorance is always in the language itself and what they do? and what is it for? actually and transluscently... - there thouseans of words and grammars has been change to confuse people and understand the law is the correct ones for the people to believe that their admirality or law of the water should control the lives of the people living in the land .. .. LAND AND WATER.. (LAW)
This would be a fantastic step forward. The United States has for far to long ignored those old treaties. We need to honor past promises and try to correct some past grave errors.
Of what are these people in congress afraid. Any person should be able to observe congress in action. Especially. If they're a citizen.
I was created in Going Snake, born in Going Snake, lived 2 years in Going Snake, returned many a time to Going Snake. I am Brian Corntassel.
It's not the seat it's the principle that's important.
Where is enforcement "...for the same." Do we need to send money to the United States Senate in order to accommodate the representative of the Cherokee Nation?
Explains why some have family history that has been hidden!
Long past overdue.
OBRA MAESTRA
I think as long as the Cherokees or any other Native American community should have a vote as long as they were not sovereign citizens!
We all know they go to tribal court and deal with their own laws within their own tribes.
I think if they started paying taxes like every other citizen of America then they should be entitled.
it's not fair for an outsider to be able to come into our court system and decide what is going to happen.
I am positive they would not let anybody else come into their tribes and help them make their decisions!! Like an American citizen. You folks accepted money for your land and for your sovereignty many years ago, you can't have it both ways!!
Hell yeah. Especially after this whole oil pipeline thing with Keystone and Nordstream.
obama says if you need any help... well dude, what did you do when you were in a position to actually do anything??? the parent's laughs said it all.
You must have a problem with comprehension. The Senate and the President already endorsed this part of the 1835 treaty. It's now up to the House of Representatives to make it happen.
Even if Obama wanted her to have that seat in Congress he couldn't do anything because the Executive branch is separate from the Legislative branch.
@@proudlakerfan
But in the world of Trump, you know, the President have unlimited powers....
@@proudlakerfan legislative branch can't do anything either. the treaty was signed when natives were sovereign and not subject to the laws of the nation. But in 1924, they wanted to become citizens and subject to the laws. They must go through the same process as everyone else and be elected. It can't be handed to them.
if vote went right would of had speaker of house so can get it back
How is it none of these people fit the description of how an Indian looks like ? None of them have brown skin strong features or wooly hair
No offence Kim Tehee & OK.C.N. but a fact check is needed here:
The sovereign Cherokee Nation was in Arkansas as of July 8,1817.The legitimate Chiefs migrated here under this treaty that expressly details that all who remain east were to take a 640 acre allotment and become a U.S. citizen,all who migrated to the Arkansas Cherokee Territory were to remain a Cherokee Nation Citizen.
All these claims about those who remained and created a government under John Ross as Chief , Charles Hicks as second Chief of a constitutional government are illegitimate!! They were intergovernmental liaisons,like Kim There is now- not the governing body.They took full ownership allotments for themselves and 38 others and signed away 3 mil acres in 1819.This included Ross,Hicks and Taylor.They were U.S.citizens at this point.The Oklahoma Cherokee people who moved west in 1839 were their unwitting following,who were manipulated by them.This,still yet doesn't diminish the fact that the legitimate C.N. was already here in Arkansas.They had direct access to the president of the U.S. & the dept of War, without the use of a delegate.
Pray you succeed...
Shalom
I think we need a representative in US and United Nations. But I think if this is going to happen it is going to happen with Donald Trump in office
I THINK FRANK HILL SHOULD OUTCAST BEN FROM OHIO WITHOUT ANYTHING TO HIS NAME.
If this is part of the treaty it should be honored. However it is interesting that we are talking about this now. This curiously was never a concern when Obama was in office...
or clinton !
@Gabriel Jean-Batiste US citizens cannot be delegates nor offices given without being elected.
@Gabriel Jean-Batiste Yes. the treaty promised that there will be a Native as a delegate for representation. But natives are citizens now and cannot be delegated. There is no point in having that treaty recognized now.
Respect the Treaties!!
Rewrite the treaties and do what they say..and let us physically commit our day to day activities into beong responsible to the actions that those or the benefits and situations we would translate up to today's meaning allow us to do..that legally protects and insists we can "get away with doing exactly as its detailed". The treaties are bucket to do lists that we get away for doing..so I already have started DOING my living by what the Kickapoo 1854 Treaty describes a earned living that I can get away with doing! I So far havent been obstructed or denied accessing what many areas of life most will not get even near to thrills or basic enjoyment that for now..is only THRILLING near total collapse type stuff that I will keep trying.out to get away with doing until the final Treaty Promise action or ability exclusive to me and those Kickapoo MY treaty included has been recorded by me and whoever out there I experience who balks and jealously throws a public tv news at 6..story type objection against what I am doing??!!! Why am I doing or would think in a million years I would get away with that??? Not a million. 200 years. Because the bible tells me so.
No. Its my Constitutional Right to do that or this and legally get sometime and at some legal argued court its ruling 35 years down the road Yes..its constitutionally supposed to be for me that way?
No. Ain't nobody named KC Eisenberger got patience for that. Money for that. Time that gets purchased only by and with MONEY ..can't pay for that large a time purchase. Don't have money. Don't have money. Don't have money to pay for anything that can happen thats not otherwise just an.act of natural weather conditions. Don't need it. My treaty covers everything a person released from prison would want to do..but not able to have what the judge can do on the weekends ..not ALL that activity and access to life in a 4 day time? Treaties get that life dropped any where on you that a indian desires. Instant Justice. Instant Attorneys. Instant Medicine. Instant amd UNCONDITIONAL USE of vehicle, land, no questions asked travel, nowhere IN ANY COMPUTER data base...99% fully private in public privacy and options out the whahZop like "what me on day 3 out of Alcatraz looks like while everybody in America is obsessed to stay hypnotized looking and waiting on the 300 year waiting to try out the rides and games their US Constitution/ACLU waiting list lifestyles theme park sold tickets that I won't buy. The bigger than THAT theme park aint a theme. Its the real deal Jurassic Park and it only takes 3 days to get into experiencing because the other waiting line hogged up 300 years to decide which ride and when the ect..ect. Nobody even could imagine the UNTAPPED and UNCODED and UNREGULATED and UNLIMITED consequences the Treaty lifestyle of me..its first full blown committed citizen who will only abide to the exact last word of each area written about in each paragraph concerning behavior, protocols, instructed rules to follow and what will occur almost exactly as written. The benefits that explode out of the few mentions made of what I can do..what USA will do and what I'm on my own for most of it?? Oh yes. I'd live up to being 125 just to try out every limited doscussed venue that is otherwise regulated to zero contact? It's FULL BLOWN touch..slap..grab and super glue self up against and still the balloon isnt popped too full yet!! Try out living the Treaty word for word. I AM. Would you even want to imagine that one day 12.hour vacay type excitement you'd maybe not be down for? Yeah...Treaties.its getting better each day I honor it myself as soon as I wake.up and cause my neigjbors to keep watching me and whispering...if the neighbors ain't wondering and too freaked out to call police or the courthouse..then you ain't held any treaty in your hand like i do my application for a passport. Steps 1-20 and about 2 months to get all the things amd pay all the pay and process the process..I hold and work the Treaty permissions like a list of odd jobs I have to complete before getting paid. Or a recipe to make Christmas Dinner. Step by Step . I do the Treaty recipe step by step and I use ALL ingredients ALL TIMES I can EAT!!
Joe Biden would have just started in congress around then :)
I want to help, I live to meet you
Ben is treason.
I wouldn't do it theirs a loop hole cherokee will loose their lands
Cherokee has no place in our Congress until they can admit their failures regarding McGirt law and a take actions to fix the lawlessness that this law has brought. Not to mention the land grabs that it’s caused through intimidation and fear.
What did Congress promise Warren? That they'd make her 1/0123?
$5
You don't need it create your own Congress, Indian house, Senate etc. Stop asking people for permission to exist or be culturally included into your own land. I am indian will never ask anyway to exist in my true Native land. We have the Obamas, Trumps and Bidens support.
She must be seated and afforded every privilidge of that which every member of the U.S House has today. I will accept no further delay. So help me God.
She must be elected by the people before being seated.
@@denacampbell6228 Well yes. Exactly. But its a lousy time to try to do the correct thing. Oklahoma APPOINTED their US Representative Kevin Hern for a vacamt term preceding the 2018 Jan to Jan 2 year open term in Congress by using a dangerous secret way of layering reoorts, news stories, election results and 24 hr news television that don't stop and when people like juicy political impossibles to foam at the mouth over... Oklahoma State officials stir up other states problems, Afghan mistreatment...Markwayne Mullin on his RESCUE 911 helicopter near death AMERICAN DELIVERANCE experiences for CNN to talk smack about the GOP in Oklahoma...never even having a backlog of THIS overthrowing of Elected Federal Seats filled by people ELECTED and not chosen. But now here is Cherokee Indian Treaty that SPELLS IT OUT TO DO JUST THAT. After 200 years? Well DO IT! but there in Tahlequah she sits under a tree waiting to shake hands at a tribal dinner or photo shoot...DELEGATE TO CONGRESS!!! and will sit another 200 years until some Kickapoo like me GETS arrested cause I knocked 45 people down or cussed out the US President if he was there the day I just showed up and demanded to be seated..paid and given a office with ALL the trimmings of any US legislative branch individual representing persons added to my being 1. So having principles and following rules that work against what the intent and instant gratification & instant effects that instantly cause follow up acts as its result are two different things. I dont want to be DELEGATE TO CONGRESS to just say..ah..glad we finally reached what the treaty said we could do. How sweet. Its the thought that counts! No. If I know I buy one pizza and the 2nd pizza is free? As soon as I get done eating my paid pizza...youll have my 2md one ready ..in the oven or told the cook? If not? I'll be in that kitchen or talking to rhe one who brought the pizza and knows WHY I'm flipped out! Either way..youll know I demanded another pizza . why? Oh you'll know.
Ms. Campbell- does that make sense? Did I simply the heaviness of what I understand is a frightful dead ended road while the road sign says open? And the road crew flag man is even present and waving us thru and 1 in the car of 5 ..KNOWS ITS A CAR WRECK for us that is a GUARANTEE..but where is the road washed out at? 3 hours later we still driving..and another car behind us going along to D.C just fine...but its known that im still not leaning back with ear buds blasting FOXNEWS from my iPhone..nope. I'm still making the driver nervous by my look like I might suddenly grab the wheel or jump out totally! But WHAT IS IT ON MY MIND? well. Thats where im at in the car ride scenario thats not a distant hypothetically spouted off metaphor . or is it?
lmao wtf u already get free shit
Identity thief’s
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Grandson of nana Geronimo fight back hope you the best my sisters and brothers Win My great grandmother was one of the slaves out of 400 apaches out of Lincoln New Mexico stoled my great grandmother name died with her slave name I’m so sorry great grandmother died 1912 was 110 years old Lincoln New Mexico
Here’s another story my great grandfather’s, where the regulators Chavez rode with Billy the kid there’s a book dedicated to my grandfather genealogy that’s where I found my great grandmother nana Geronimo live 20 minutes from the reservation know one on the Res knows I’m a Geronimo my mother told me stories of my great mother never had her picture now I do I’m very happy my mom stories runaway slave left our home lands never went back Revolt of 1680 My family never every met my cousins or family hidden for our safety got robbed I live a peaceful live on my farm aho