EditorialKimberly Teehee, the Cherokee Nation’s nominated delegate for a nonvoting seat in Congress, at the tribe’s headquarters in Tahlequah in eastern Oklahoma, Oct. 25, 2022. The Cherokees’ demand that Congress honor a 187-year-old treaty and seat a nonvoting delegate. (Joseph Rushmore/The New York Times)
EditorialOutacite, chief of the Cherokees. Outacite was a war title conferred for bravery. This is possibly the Outacite, who in 1762, went to England with Henry Timberlake, where he was visited by thousands of people, and had an audience with the king. The Lon...
EditorialA kindergarten class at the Cherokee Immersion School on the tribe’s reservation in Tahlequah, in eastern Oklahoma, Oct. 25, 2022. (Joseph Rushmore/The New York Times)