The United States Congress is exploring the possibility of honouring a promise made nearly 200 years ago: seating a delegate from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, a Native American tribe, in the US legislature.Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin testified on Wednesday before a US House Rules Committee, the first to examine the prospect of seating a Cherokee delegate in the chamber of Congress.The 1835 Treaty of New Echota includes a provision allowing the Cherokee Nation to send a delegate to Washington, DC. A separate treaty in 1866 affirmed this right, Hoskin said.
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