Chuck Hoskin: “This is not something we can fail at, and it is not something we can wait to do.”

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

It would be difficult for me, Senator, to come to this Committee and press for treaty rights if I could not say to myself, we are living up to all of our obligations.

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

We have to look in the mirror, and we have to recognize that we have done the same.