Chuck Hoskin: “We have to look in the mirror, and we have to recognize that we have done the same.”

In Cherokee Nation, we are focused on building paths to homeownership.

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

I urge the committee to swiftly move forward with a bipartisan reauthorization bill that can pass the Senate and be signed into law.

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.