Treaty of 1866 Was More of an Imposition Than a Negotiation

The treaty of 18 66 was more of an imposition than a negotiation. A relatively short time later, the state of oklahomais imposed over the cherokee nation. Our government is pressed to the point where we have no functioning democracy. We have chiefs that are appointed by the present united states. Through most of the twentieth century, my grandfather never got to vote for a chief, let alone ever imagined his grandson would be the chief. And so you have a civil society that is eroded almost to nothing.