{"id":26586,"date":"2022-07-25T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2022-07-25T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:05:34","slug":"chuck-hoskin-cherokee-nation-celebrates-historic-act-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/chuck-hoskin-cherokee-nation-celebrates-historic-act-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation celebrates historic act of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/videos\/431599652180480\/\" data-width=\"auto\" data-show-text=\"false\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/videos\/431599652180480\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/videos\/431599652180480\/\">Chief Hoskin reflects on the 1839 Act of Union<\/a><p>As we celebrate the 183rd anniversary of the Act of Union, we are reminded how far we have come as a people. Our ancestors had it right when they said that the Cherokee people are stronger when we are together. \r\n\r\nIn this video, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. reflects on the events of 1839 that unified the Cherokee people and paved the way for the strong Cherokee Nation that exists today. #ActOfUnion #183years<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\">Cherokee Nation<\/a> on Monday, July 11, 2022<\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Cherokee Nation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/videos\/431599652180480\/\">1839 Act of Union<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">183 Years of Cherokee Unity: The Act of Union<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, July 25, 2022<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckHoskin_Jr\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Cherokee Nation<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><A \r\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.cherokee.org\/\">cherokee.org<\/A><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nPolitical division. Competing governing factions. Revenge killings.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nWhatever our disagreements may be today, nothing compares to what divided the Cherokee people 183 years ago.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nIn 1839, after the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee people found themselves split. It seemed hopeless.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nEarlier migrants to present-day Oklahoma, known as the \u201cOld Settlers,\u201d established a \u201cWestern Cherokee\u201d government. The Chief John Ross-led Cherokee Nation government, forcibly removed from the East, saw itself as the duly constituted government of the Cherokees. And, of course the Treaty Party, having ratified the removal treaty at New Echota, remained a force in post-removal Cherokee life.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/chuck-hoskin-cherokee-nation-celebrates-historic-act-of-unity\/chuckhoskin-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" data-attachment-id=\"26590\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/chuck-hoskin-cherokee-nation-celebrates-historic-act-of-unity\/chuckhoskin-18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/ChuckHoskin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Chuck Hoskin\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Chuck Hoskin&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addresses the Tri-Council meeting of the Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on June 24, 2022. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/posts\/pfbid0w8ffa8eD7teoPNjpifidhx9tBfyMYX4CQzqaoYqVN5x1SfNgdHf3xsasv5MRuvnbl&gt;Cherokee Nation&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/ChuckHoskin-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/ChuckHoskin.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Hoskin\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-26590\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addresses the Tri-Council meeting of the Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on June 24, 2022. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/posts\/pfbid0w8ffa8eD7teoPNjpifidhx9tBfyMYX4CQzqaoYqVN5x1SfNgdHf3xsasv5MRuvnbl>Cherokee Nation<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe events following our forced removal capture the imagination. Scenes abound of political strife, acts of revenge stemming from the circumstances of our removal and competing visions of our future. I am amazed at our ancestors\u2019 ability to resolve differences for the greater good. \r\n <P><\/P>\r\nOn July 12, we celebrate the <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/videos\/431599652180480\/>183rd anniversary of the  1839 Act of Union<\/a>, a remarkable feat of statecraft and diplomacy. Competing Cherokee factions recognized the need to \u201chereby solemnly and mutually agree to form ourselves into one body politic.\u201d\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nWith the <a href=https:\/\/www.cherokeephoenix.org\/news\/1839-cherokee-constitution-born-from-act-of-union\/article_5621e3f8-f65c-5990-8af2-c889b21b0abc.html>1839 Act of Union<\/a>, Cherokee Nation continued on. Within two months of the Act of Union, the Cherokee people adopted a new constitution, \u201c\u2026re-united\u2026 under the style and title of the Cherokee Nation.\u201d  Within a decade we further solidified the status of the Cherokee Nation through our 1846 treaty with the United States, which stated that our internal divisions were \u201chereby settled and adjusted, and shall, as far as possible, be forgotten and forever buried in oblivion.\u201d\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nWith those actions, a temporary period of profound disunity gave way to an unbroken chain of governing by a single, unified Cherokee Nation. We continue on to this day as an Indian nation that predates European contact and one with a continual government-to-government relationship with the United States since the country\u2019s founding.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_www-facebook-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/posts\/pfbid0w8ffa8eD7teoPNjpifidhx9tBfyMYX4CQzqaoYqVN5x1SfNgdHf3xsasv5MRuvnbl\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/04\/474669000_1016476300511971_7827695076142961216_n.jpg\" alt=\"Cherokee Nation\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/posts\/pfbid0w8ffa8eD7teoPNjpifidhx9tBfyMYX4CQzqaoYqVN5x1SfNgdHf3xsasv5MRuvnbl\">\n\t\t\tCherokee Nation\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCherokeeNation\/posts\/pfbid0w8ffa8eD7teoPNjpifidhx9tBfyMYX4CQzqaoYqVN5x1SfNgdHf3xsasv5MRuvnbl\">\n\t\t\t<p>Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation Deputy Principal Chief Bryan Warner, members of the cabinet and the Council of the Cherokee Nation gathered with Cherokee leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/y1\/r\/ay1hV6OlegS.ico\" alt=\"www.facebook.com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\twww.facebook.com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe 1839 Act of Union preserved something else important: our rights and obligations under our treaties as well as exclusive tribal jurisdiction over our 7,000-square-mile Cherokee Nation Reservation. From the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785 to our most recent treaty in 1866, Cherokee Nation\u2019s agreements with the United States shape many legal rights and obligations, ranging from hunting and fishing to criminal jurisdiction to our right to a delegate in the United States House of Representatives. Our ancestors\u2019 efforts to reunite in 1839 means that those treaties remain alive and well and exclusively in the hands of the Cherokee Nation.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nSubsequent events sometimes cause confusion, including the 20th century creation of two federally recognized \u201cbands\u201d of Cherokees: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in North Carolina, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, headquartered within our Cherokee Nation Reservation in Tahlequah.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nEBCI traces its governing roots to 1925. Its government provides an array of vital services and employment for its members on the Qualla Boudary. EBCI makes great strides in a number of important efforts, such as health care and historic preservation. We often work with EBCI on important public policy matters, such as opposing groups fraudulently posing as tribes.\r\n <P><\/P><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><P><\/P>\r\nThe UKB is sometimes mistakenly connected to the \u201cOld Settlers.\u201d The \u201cOld Settlers,\u201d of course, rejoined the Cherokee Nation under the 1839 Act of Union more than a century before UKB was created. Rather than tracing back to the Removal Era, the UKB was created by Congress in 1946 and recognized as a tribe in 1950. UKB provides a variety programs and services to its members within our Cherokee Nation Reservation.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nNotwithstanding the federally created separate bands of Cherokees in the 20th century, the 1839 Act of Union and related agreements of the era forever resolved the split between the forcibly removed \u201cEastern Cherokees\u201d and the earlier \u201cWestern Cherokee\u201d migrants into a single Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation, therefore, provides that vital link between all Cherokee people to Cherokee history stretching back to time immemorial.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nMy hope is that as we go about our daily lives as Cherokee Nation citizens, mindful that we disagree from time to time, we reflect on the wisdom of our ancestors. Facing divisions and conflict far greater than anything we experience in the current era, our ancestors focused intensely on those issues and ideas that were most vital to our shared future. Because of that &#8211; most notable because of the July 12, 1839, Act of Union &#8211; a unified Cherokee Nation stands strong today.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-md-3\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/23\/chuckhoskinavatar.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Hoskin Jr\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"rounded-circle\" \/><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"col-md-9\"><EM><A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckHoskin_Jr\">Chuck Hoskin Jr.<\/A> \r\nis the 18th elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, the largest Indian \r\ntribe in the United States. He is only the second elected Principal Chief of the \r\nCherokee Nation from Vinita, the first being Thomas Buffington, who served from \r\n1899-1903. Prior to being elected Principal Chief, Hoskin served as the tribe\u2019s \r\nSecretary of State. He also formerly served as a member of the Council of the \r\nCherokee Nation, representing District 11 for six years.<\/EM><\/div><\/div><HR>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whatever our disagreements may be today, nothing compares to what divided the Cherokee people 183 years ago.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,9,14],"tags":[77,76,534,138,184,127,220,669,154,1083],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-cherokee","tag-chuck-hoskin","tag-eastern-cherokee","tag-meetings","tag-north-carolina","tag-oklahoma","tag-sovereignty","tag-trail-of-tears","tag-treaties","tag-ukb","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-6UO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/ChuckHoskin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}