Seems there IS a 200 year old treaty the US government made with the native Americans when they sought peace with the Native American tribes in the West…
Those tribes do operate their own form of government on their land…
A Representative would not have voting rights, but would sit in the US House like the reps from Wash. DC and the US Territories ….
Republicans are sure to contest this and it is bound to end up in Federal Court….
The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.
It was a historic step for the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and its nearly 370,000 citizens, coming about a week after Chuck Hoskin Jr. was sworn in as principal chief of the tribe. The Cherokee Nation says it’s the largest tribal nation in the US and one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.
The move raises questions about what that representation in Congress would look like and whether the US will honor an agreement it made almost two centuries ago….
image…WashPost
The Cherokee Nation elected a non-voting delegate, Elias Cornelius Boudinot, to the Confederate States Congresses of 1861-1865.