Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
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.
Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
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