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TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA - The Cherokee Nation honored two female veterans during the October Tribal Council meeting.
Cherokee Nation Deputy Chief Joe Grayson (left) and Principal Chief Chad Smith (right) present a wooden Cherokee Nation seal to Marion Hagerstrand (center), a WW II veteran, during the October Tribal Council meeting. 
Principal Chief Chad Smith and Deputy Chief Joe Grayson and the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council honored World War II veteran Marion Hagerstrand and Shawnna Eubanks, a Cherokee Nation employee who is currently stationed in Iraq. Eubanks was home in early September and attended the Cherokee National Holiday.
"What we have here is heaven compared to what they have in Iraq," Eubanks said at that time.
Hagerstrand was a lieutenant in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in the Pacific during WW II.
During Chief Smith’s State of the Nation address, he asked Cherokee citizens to remember the sacrifice veterans have made by exercising their right to vote on November 2. He urged tribal citizens to vote yes on State Question 712 and played a recording of U.S. Senate candidate Tom Coburn’s criticism of the Cherokee Nation, in which Coburn said treaties are "primitive agreements" that "undermine the future of Oklahoma," that he would fight tribes on sovereignty issues and that working with tribes was "a joke."
Smith urged Cherokees to consider Coburn’s comments and how Coburn would treat Indians tribes if he were to become Senator.
"Tom Coburn has shown that he is divisive and does not want to represent all Oklahomans," Smith said.
The Council unanimously approved three resolutions, including one amending the Indian Housing Plan.
The Council also authorized the Cherokee Nation to take two separate tracts of land into trust, one in West Siloam Springs, next to the existing Cherokee Casino, and one in Stilwell at the intersection of Highway 59 and Highway 51, next to Cherokee Nation Industries’ headquarters.
By a 14-1 vote, the Council authorized a limited waiver of sovereign immunity allowing the Cherokee Nation to enter into a lease purchase agreement for a bulldozer for the Cherokee Nation landfill.
The Council also unanimously passed amendments to the Cherokee Nation budget.
The entire October Cherokee Nation Council meeting can be heard/viewed by way of the Cherokee Nation’s web site, viat the path to Tribal Government Streaming Event Archives.
The next regular scheduled Council meeting is set for November 15, at 6 p.m., in the Tribal Council Chambers at the W.W. Keeler Complex.
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Mike Miller, Cherokee Nation Director of Communications Phone: 918-456-0671 (ext.2210) Fax: 918-458-5580 E-mail: Communications@cherokee.org
Larry Daugherty, Advertising Manager |
Steven Swogger, Agriculture Liaison Natural Resources Department Phone: 918-456-0671 (ext.2546) FAX: 918-458-7673 E-mail: sswogger@cherokee.org
Bradley D. Peak, Cherokee Nation |