Cherokee Nation announces plans to send a delegate to the House of Representatives, invoking 184-yea

[Sanguine]

The US government offered them this option nearly 200 years ago

Mike Ciandella

The Cherokee Nation plans to activate an offer from a 184-year-old treaty and send a representative to Washington, D.C., the Native American tribe announced on Thursday.

In 1835, the Cherokee Nation was forced to sign the Treaty of New Echota with the United States. In this lopsided agreement, the Cherokee people were forced to move from their homes in North Carolina along the Trail of Tears to what is now Oklahoma. Nearly 4,000 Cherokees died during this relocation.

In an attempt to convince the Cherokee people to go quietly, the U.S. government offered them the right to send a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cherokee-nation-announces-plans-to-send-a-delegate-to-the-house-of-representatives?utm_content=bufferc0d82&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tw-theblaze

It could potentially be a good thing?

[XenaLee]

It could potentially be a good thing?

I don't know.  Mankiller was a leftie.  As an icon of the Cherokee nation, her legacy will probably inspire most to be Democrats.  My grandfather, married to a full-blood Cherokee woman, was a Democrat.  Of course, that was back when the Democrats were less radical... but still...

it could prove to NOT be a good thing for those of us on the right.

[Wingnut]

If Liz Warren wins that would be what...1 and 1/1064th Cherokees in government.