Chuck Hoskin: “The Cherokee Nation shall have a delegate.”

All Freedmen and their descendants shall have all of the rights of Native Cherokees.

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.

Our goal is to create a language campus, a language village, that will be our best tool in saving the Cherokee language.

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.