The 2019 Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma principal chief election was held on Saturday, June 1, 2019. Former Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin...
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Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah...
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The 2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief election was held on June 3, 2023, concurrently with the 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections and 2023...
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(Cherokee: ᎫᏫᏍᎫᏫ, romanized: Guwisguwi, lit. 'Mysterious Little White Bird'; October 3, 1790 – August 1, 1866) was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee...
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Cherokee Nation principal chief election, to elect the Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Incumbent deputy chief Bryan Warner ran for re-election to a second...
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The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the...
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citizens. The Cherokee Nation held general elections for Principal Chief between challenger Bill John Baker, a longtime Cherokee Nation councilman, and...
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1954) was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1995 to 1999. Byrd is bilingual, with an ability to communicate in both Cherokee and English....
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Chad Smith (politician) (redirect from Chad Smith (Cherokee chief))
attorney who served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. He was first elected in 1999. Smith was re-elected to a second term as Chief in 2003 and a third...
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Michell Hicks (category Principal Chiefs of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
September 8, 1964) is an American and Cherokee politician who has served as the principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians since 2023. He previously...
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Little Turkey was recognized as "Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation" by all the towns. At that time, Cherokee communities were on lands claimed by...
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Bill John Baker (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
a Cherokee politician who served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. First elected in October 2011, Baker defeated three-term incumbent Chief Chad...
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was the fourth Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is noted for the 1875 amendments to the Eastern Band Cherokee Constitution and...
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Stand Watie (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907))
Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866. The Cherokee Nation allied with the...
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Joe Crittenden (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
he was elected deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation, but a dispute in the election for principal chief requiring a special election required him to briefly...
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Cherokee Indians is one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the others being the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee...
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Wes Nofire (category Members of the Council of the Cherokee Nation)
the 2022 primary election for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district and candidate in the 2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief election. John Wesley Nofire...
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Cherokee Nation was dissolved in 1906, in spite of the resistance of many of its members. The only remnant left was the office of the Principal Chief...
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Keeler served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and, at the same time, held the position as Chairman of the Texas Cherokee and Associated Bands...
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William Charles Rogers (redirect from William Rogers (Cherokee Chief))
November 8, 1917) was a Cherokee politician, Confederate veteran and farmer. He served as Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation from 1903 to 1917. After...
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David Walkingstick (category Members of the Council of the Cherokee Nation)
Cherokee constitution that limited citizenship to "Cherokee by blood." Walkingstick filed to run in the 2019 Cherokee Nation principal chief election...
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Bryan Warner (category Deputy chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
a Cherokee Nation politician who has served as the deputy principal chief of the Cherokee Nation since 2019 and who served as the Cherokee Nation tribal...
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Chuck Hoskin Jr. (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
February 7, 1975) is a Cherokee Nation politician and attorney currently serving as the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation since 2019. He was re-elected...
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David Cornsilk (redirect from The Cherokee Observer)
2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief election. He lost the election to incumbent principal chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. In the longstanding Cherokee Freedmen...
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November 2011, at the request of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Bill John Baker, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma enacted the Corporate...
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tribes: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, The Cherokee Nation, and The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. The first live predominantly in North...
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Wilma Mankiller (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's...
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Treaty of New Echota (category Cherokee and United States treaties)
the 1866 Cherokee Treaty confirm that the Treaty Party are the Ridge Party and Southern Cherokee. In 2019, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin...
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List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Secretary of State of the Cherokee Nation "Constitution of the Cherokee Nation" (PDF). Cherokee Nation. 1999....
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Chuck Hoskin (category Cherokee Nation state legislators in Oklahoma)
for the Principal Chief, Baker. In 2019 his son, Chuck Hoskin Jr., was elected Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation. Hoskin was born on January 29, 1952...
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