Chief Hoskin expands Executive Order on Equality
Published on Native Oklahoma - February 21, 2024
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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – "Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. has expanded a 2020 Executive Order on Equality and created a task force that will study whether Cherokee citizens of Freedmen descent are provided equal access to tribal programs and services.
Chief Hoskin’s 2020 Executive Order on Equality was created to prohibit discrimination and ensure all Cherokee Nation citizens, including those who face historic and contemporary marginalization and discrimination, are considered equal under tribal law.
The expanded Executive Order on Equality, signed Feb. 16, 2024, creates the Principal Chief’s Task Force on Access to Programs and Services by Cherokee Citizens of Freedmen Descent. The group will study the accessibility of Cherokee Nation programs and services to Cherokee citizens of Freedmen descent, identify gaps in programs and services, and suggest strategies that would address any deficiencies."
The long fight for Freedmen citizenship continues..
Published in NONDOC By Joe Tomlinson - Friday, March 4, 2022
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"In 1866, the United States signed treaties with the Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes which granted reservation land to each tribe and abolished slavery within the tribal nations. According to those treaties, former slaves were to be recognized as full tribal citizens.
Today, however, only the Cherokee Nation recognizes Freedmen as full citizens. The Muscogee, Choctaw and Seminole nations have since amended their constitutions in ways that exclude Freedmen, and the Chickasaw Nation never enrolled Freedmen into the tribe at all, despite treaty stipulations."
This in-depth article contains information about the Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes. It includes quotes from LeEtta Osborne-Sampson, Cheryl Phifer, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Marilyn Vann, Ivory Vann, Walton-Raji, Verdie Triplett, and Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby.
NAHASDA Reauthorization hearing - July 27th, 2021
Addressing Historic Disinvestment and the Ongoing Plight of Freedmen in Native American Communities
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., and President of the Descendants of the 5 Civilized Tribes Association, Marilyn Vann, testified about the reauthorization of the Native American Housing Assistance Self Determination Act, or NAHASDA at the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Hoskin and Vann both testified about the need for Freedmen descendants to be included in the new bill.
Also, testifying were:
Anthony Walters, Executive Director of National American Indian Housing Council
Chris Kolerok, Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs, Cook Inlet Housing Authority
Jackson Brossy, Executive Director, Native CDFI Network Inc.
Left to right: Chief Chuck Hoskins, Anthony Walters, Marilyn Vann, Chris Kolerok, Jackson Brossy (screenshot)
Marilyn Vann, President of DF5CTA
D.C. journalist Ford inducted into SPJ Hall of Fame
Published in the Cherokee Phoenix by D. Sean Rowley Senior Reporter Jun 28, 2023
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" WASHINGTON, D.C. – Samuel Ford claimed he was taken aback… in a good way.
The Cherokee Nation citizen and adept way finder around the often-pitiless stage of Beltway journalism was recently notified of his induction into the Society of Professional Journalists D.C. Pro Chapter Hall of Fame. "
Ford is a member of the National Association of Black Journists and is the Washington Bureau Chief for WJLA-TV. The series “Black Slaves, Red Masters” Samuel Ford wrote ran on Washington TV station WJLA in 1990.
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