Chuck Hoskin: “I urge the committee to swiftly move forward with a bipartisan reauthorization bill that can pass the Senate and be…”

I think that interruption of many, many decades really arrested the development of the Cherokee Nation.

We have to make sure that any barriers that might have existed, historically, to access are knocked down.

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

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