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TAHLEQUAH - Acclaimed Cherokee actor, Wes Studi, and award winning Cherokee singer-actress, Rita Coolidge, helped produce a video tape endorsing Chad Smith for Pricipal Chief and Hastings Shade for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO).

Chad Smith said the video tape, "contrasts highlights against the present-day Cherokee controversy in Tahlequah", by way of Cherokee history. The tape is narrated by Wes Studi.

According to Smith, the tape has been mailed to a majority of Cherokee citizens that are registered to vote in the CNO election, which is to be held May 22.

Chadwick "Corntassle" Smith "Cherokee Attorney,
Legal Historian, and Candidate for Chief"

Elect Chad Smith and Hastings Shade in 1999