Blog | Julia Coates Cherokee At-Large Tribal Council

Why It Matters Election Reform #1

Filing for Candidacy On February 4, I filed my candidacy for the At Large Tribal Council seat. I presented my verification documents,...

The Case of Buel Anglen

Yesterday I shared with you a proposal for establishing an independent, qualified Election Commission and provided an example of the...

Cherokee Community of North Texas

There is much more to do!

For the past six months, I have been attending At Large community events across the country. It has been a real joy to connect again with...

Carried Through All time

While working in Albuquerque for the Native Lands Institute, another conference I attended was that of the Indigenous Environmental...

When Did you Become a Cherokee? (Part II)

I cried when I moved away from San Francisco, and the first year in Albuquerque had been terribly hard. After a year of graduate work in...

What was your moment?

When did you begin to really think about what it means to be a Cherokee? She had been trying to get back to the Indian southwest for a...

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