Chuck Hoskin: “Cherokee Nation citizenship is equal. ... There are no distinctions between Cherokee citizens of Freedmen descent or…”

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

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.

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