Kimberly Teehee has been nominated to serve as the Cherokee delegate.
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In September, Kimberly Teehee became the Cherokee Nation's first delegate to the U.S. House.
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The nation has nominated Kim Teehee, its vice president of government relations, as its delegate.
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Or, for the same reason, Ms. Teehee could simply be seated by the Speaker of the House.
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Cole's comments are emblematic of the significant hurdles that remain between Teehee and taking her seat in Congress.
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Teehee has a wealth of experience working in Washington, DC with representatives from both sides of the aisle.
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For about 12 years before that, Teehee was a senior advisor to Dale Kildee, then a Democratic congressman from Michigan.
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The treaty doesn't specify if Teehee would be a voting member of the legislature, and her appointment requires congressional approval.
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First, Teehee has to be confirmed by the tribal council of the Cherokee Nation in a special meeting on August 29.
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But Teehee and Hoskin are both more than prepared to hit the ground running when she is finally ensconced on Capitol Hill.
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Jerrica Ann Renee Teehee Lackey, 30, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child under the age of 12, according to court records.
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Alongside Hoskin was his proposed candidate, Kimberly Teehee, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and, by all accounts, a natural fit for the position.
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Following her time in the White House and a brief stint in lobbying, Teehee accepted a position as vice president of special projects of Cherokee Nation Businesses.
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" "I'll just send them three little follow-up texts to see if they got the initial follow-up text to the follow-up text I sent them. teehee.
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That's why as chief, I appointed Kim Teehee to be the tribe's first-ever delegate to the House of Representatives; the Council of the Cherokee Nation unanimously approved.
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As chief of the Cherokee Nation, I joined Ms. Teehee last week with several members of the House and the Senate to discuss finalizing her seat to Congress.
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Teehee was in Washington with the Cherokee Nation's principal chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., to continue talks with lawmakers and others about how she could take up the seat in Congress.
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This fall, we will continue to work with our congressional delegation from Oklahoma to confirm Ms. Teehee as our delegate and expand our push to the broader audience of Congress.
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Teehee said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday she is "humbled" to be nominated for an "extraordinary responsibility" and is grateful for an opportunity to serve the Cherokee Nation.
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In August the Cherokee Nation proposed Kimberly Teehee, who served as the White House's first-ever senior policy adviser for Native Americans under former President Barack Obama, to take the seat.
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We are sending a Cherokee to Washington because Ms. Teehee deserves to be given her rightful seat as a voice for change that will keep in mind those seven generations to come.
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After a decade working with the House's bipartisan Native American Caucus, Teehee ascended to the Obama White House, where she served three years as the country's first-ever policy adviser for Native affairs.
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However, since US treaties have been upheld as being legally binding, it is expected that Teehee will be seated at some point, joining four other Native Americans who currently serve in the House as state representatives.
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Twelve days later, the tribe's council approved Kimberly Teehee, currently the Cherokee Nation's vice president of governmental relations and a former senior policy adviser for Native American Affairs under President Obama, as its nominee for the position.
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Teehee told TNR she accepted the appointment with the goal of being an unabashed champion for the Cherokee Nation and Indian Country, beginning with defending both the treaties and the sovereign status of the tribal nations that signed them.
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While House delegates do not have the same voting privileges as representatives, Ms. Teehee will use her platform to lobby for equitable funding in education and health care — and she will push the federal government to fulfill all other treaty obligations.
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"It's imperative that we elect people to Congress who have at least some foundational knowledge of Indian tribes and have a willingness to fall on the sword to protect the legal relationship that the tribes have with the United States," Teehee said.
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Teehee would specifically serve as a representative of the Cherokee Nation, but it's likely that given the prominence of the position and the historical lack of attention to the needs of Native communities as a whole, she will also speak on issues important to American Indians at large.
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Kimberly Teehee, executive director of government relations for the Cherokee Nation, was approved by the Council of the Cherokee Nation as a delegate to the US House of Representatives on Thursday, fulfilling a promise made to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.
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"It's a testament of the rebuilding of native nations in the 20th and 21st centuries," Maggie Blackhawk, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said of the Cherokee Nation's effort to seat Teehee in an interview with the New York Times in August.
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In 2014, Teehee joined Cherokee Nation Businesses, where she served as vice president of special projects for the tribe's holding company."Cherokee Nation Hires Former White House Advisor Kim Teehee"; September 25, 2014; webpage; Indianz.com; accessed January 27, 2018.
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Deputy Chief Johnny Teehee was sworn in as Chief of Police on July 17, 2018.
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In August 2019, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. appointed Teehee as the Cherokee Nation's first-ever delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Her appointment was approved by the Cherokee Council on August 29. The Nation's right to send a delegate to Congress was provided for in the Treaty of Hopewell of 1785 and the Treaty of New Echota of 1835; however, the right was not exercised until 2019. The U.S. House of Representatives will have to vote to seat Teehee as a delegate similar to those representing the U.S. territories.
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Congressional nominee Kimberly Teehee of the Cherokee Nation stands in front of the Nation's flag, the flag of the United States, and the flag of Oklahoma in 2019. A flag for the new Nation was designed by Stanley John, and approved by the Cherokee Tribal Council on October 9, 1978. The flag comprises an orange field with the "Great Seal of the Cherokee Nation" in its center. The seal is surrounded by seven yellow stars with seven points.
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A member of the Cherokee Nation, she was born on March 2, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she and her family are fluent Cherokee language speakers. Teehee is a graduate of Northeastern State University, where she was graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1991. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1995. She was awarded a Bureau of National Affairs Award.
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Teehee served as the first deputy director of Native American Outreach for the Democratic National Committee and director of Native American outreach for President Bill Clinton's 1997 inauguration. Starting in 1998, she then served as Senior Advisor to Democratic Congressman Dale Kildee of Michigan, who was a co-chair of the Native American Caucus in the House of Representatives. Tribal Energy Summit In the Obama administration she served on the White House Domestic Policy Council. Beginning July 2009, she assumed the new position of Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs and advised the president about issues pertaining to Indian country.
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In 2019, Cherokee Nation principal chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. cited a provision of the treaty that states that the Cherokee "shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States whenever Congress shall make provision for the same," in announcing that he intended to appoint, for the first time, a Congressional delegate from the Cherokee Nation. Pending a decision of the Cherokee National Council, Hoskin said he would nominate Kimberly Teehee, a member of the Cherokee Nation who formerly served as a policy advisor in the administration of President Barack Obama, to the post.
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