The Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it made nearly 200 years ago

The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.

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