Chuck Hoskin: “These actions have made the Cherokee Nation a better nation for having recognized full and equal citizenship of Freedmen…”

If we allow our language to perish, all our accomplishments--what we have done in health care, education, and economic development--will be for naught as these things can only be fully achieved when we save our language.

Durbin Feeling was a great man. I knew Durbin Feeling. He was a patriot of the United States, serving the Country, and he was a savior of the Cherokee language.

I think the Framers of this treaty plainly were concerned about the governmental interests of the Cherokee Nation having a place in this body.

these actions have made the Cherokee Nation a better nation for having recognized full and equal citizenship of Freedmen descendants.