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I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.