Cherokee Nation
Native American tribe in Oklahoma
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| 2024 | Kendra McGeady elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 11, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2024 | Nation releases updated demographics maps showing total population in the United States of approximately 466,118. |
| 2023 | Codey Poindexter elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 8, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2023 | Lisa Hall elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 3, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2023 | Sasha Blackfox-Qualls elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 1, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2023 | Kevin Easley Jr. elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 14, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2023 | Cherokee Nation enrollment increases to 450,000 citizens. |
| 2021 | Johnny Jack Kidwell elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for the At-Large district, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Candessa Tehee elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 2, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Mike Dobbins elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 4, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Joshua Sam elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 7, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Melvina Shotpouch elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 10, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Danny Callison elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 15, with a term extending to 2025. |
| 2021 | Cherokee Nation enrollment reaches 400,000, making it the second most populous Native American tribe, closely behind the Navajo Nation. |
| 2021 | Cherokee Nation Supreme Court removed the words 'by blood' from its constitution to eliminate language used to exclude Black descendants of enslaved Cherokee tribal members from citizenship rights. |
| September 13 2021 | Marilyn Vann became the first Cherokee Freedmen descendant confirmed to a Cherokee government commission, appointed to the Environmental Protection Commission by Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. |
| August 3 2021 | Cherokee Nation Health Services suspended elective surgeries after experiencing an 80% increase in COVID-19 cases. They activated a 'surge plan' at W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, increasing in-patient capacity by 50% and responding to the delta variant which accounted for 80% of new cases. |
| March 18 2021 | The Cherokee Nation held a memorial to remember 107 Cherokees who died from COVID-19, with special recognition of the Cherokee elders lost. |
| March 11 2021 | Oklahoma Courts decided in Hogner v. Oklahoma that the Cherokee Nation's reservation was established and had never been disestablished. |
| 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the Cherokee Nation, resulting in the loss of hundreds of Cherokee lives, including over 50 Cherokee first-language speaking elders. |
| November 30 2020 | The Cherokee Nation unveiled plans for the new Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah, a converted casino that will centralize the tribe's language programs and include five nearby houses for native speakers to live and interact. |
| July 9 2020 | United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that original treaties with the Five Civilized Tribes were never withdrawn, paving the way for restoration of the Cherokee Nation's reservation status. |
| 2019 | Kimberly Teehee appointed as the first ever delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation, fulfilling the 1835 treaty provision, though not yet seated by Congress. |
| 2019 | Joe Deere elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 13, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2019 | Dora Patzkowski elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 12, with a term extending to 2027, also serving as Secretary. |
| 2019 | Mike Shambaugh elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 9, with a term extending to 2025, also serving as Council Speaker. |
| 2019 | Julia Coates elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for the At-Large district, with a term extending to 2027. |
| 2019 | Daryl Legg elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 6, with a term extending to 2027. |
| June 1 2019 | Chuck Hoskin Jr. was elected as the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, previously serving as the Cherokee Nation Secretary of State. |
| 2018 | Cherokee Nation population in Oklahoma reaches 240,417, with significant populations also recorded in California (22,124), Texas (18,406), Arkansas (12,734), and Kansas (11,014). |
| 2017 | The Mount Tabor Indian Community was recognized as a tribe by the State of Texas. |
| 2017 | E. O. Smith elected to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for District 5, with a term extending to 2025. |
| August 30 2017 | United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Freedmen descendants, granting them full citizenship rights in the Cherokee Nation. |
| December 9 2016 | Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree legalized same-sex marriage through an official opinion, declaring the 2004 marriage law unconstitutional and violation of equal treatment principles in the Cherokee Constitution. |
| 2014 | The Cherokee Nation received 38 bison transferred from Badlands National Park in a ceremony involving songs and prayers, marking the beginning of their bison restoration efforts. |
| 2013 | Joe Byrd was elected to the Tribal Council. |
| 2012 | The last original member who signed the Dawes Roll died at age 107, which became a point of legal contention regarding tribal succession. |
| August 22 2011 | Cherokee Supreme Court upheld the 2007 special election results, which controversially excluded Freedmen from voting, leading to criticism from Native American leaders. |
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